Gilles Grégoire (May 6, 1926 – November 22, 2006) was a co-founder of the Parti Québécois.

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Ernest Grégoire, he was elected in 1962 to the House of Commons of Canada with the Ralliement des créditistes. He left that party in 1966 and was elected president of the Ralliement national, a pro-sovereignty party on August 21, 1966.

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In October 1968 the Ralliement national merged with René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association to form the Parti Québécois.

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He was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Frontenac in the 1976 general election and was re-elected in the 1981 general election. In 1983, he was sentenced to two years minus a day in jail due to his sexual abuse of several minor girls, which resulted in him becoming an independent for the rest of his term.

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He died in Quebec City at 80.

See also

Politics of Quebec

List of Quebec general elections

List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition

History of the Quebec sovereigntist movement

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1926 births

2006 deaths

French Quebecers

Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec

Parti Québécois MNAs

Politicians from Quebec City

Social Credit Party of Canada MPs

Canadian people convicted of child sexual abuse

Université Laval alumni