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Name: Pierre Bourgault  
   
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Date of Birth: 23rd January 1934
   
Place of Birth: East Angus, Québec, Canada
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934-June 15, 2003) was a politician and essayist in Quebec, Canada, and a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.

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An albino, he was born in East Angus in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of Quebec to parents. His parents sent him to boarding school at age 7, determined that he should receive the education which they lacked.

Beginning in the early 1960s, he supported Quebec independence from Canada and in 1960 helped found the pro-independence Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale. He participated a number of union strikes and marches that resulted in violence. In 1964, he became leader of the RIN. In 1968, he disbanded the RIN and invited its members to join René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement national in the newly-founded Parti Québécois, under Lévesque's leadership. However, Bourgault himself did not play any role in the PQ government that came to power in the 1976 Quebec provincial election, and often quarreled with Lévesque before leaving the PQ in the 1980s. Some say that he sacrificed his own political career to unite pro-sovereignty forces.

In his early life, he was a journalist at Montreal newspaper La Presse, and he returned to this in the 1990s as a columnist for Le Journal de Montréal newspaper. After 1976, he was a professor of communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He was also the co-host or regular columnist of several radio shows aired on la Société Radio-Canada, the French language sector of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1996, he wrote a column in the Le Journal de Montréal calling the Jewish community "racist" for overwhelmingly voting against Quebec separation from Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum.

He was non-religious to the point of atheism, and despite their political differences, had a solid friendship with Robert Bourassa. An ardent defender of the French language, he received the Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme in 1997.

He once estimated that he had given 4,000 speeches in his life, which are however mostly lost to posterity since he did not write them down.

External link

  • Obituary (from Le Devoir, in French)

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