André Boisclair
1966
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- politician
André Boisclair (French pronunciation: [ÉÌdÊe bwaklÉÊ]; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Sorel-Tracy detention facilityDates unknown
Biography
André Boisclair (French pronunciation: [ÉÌdÊe bwaklÉÊ]; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec. Between January 1996 and March 2003, Boisclair served as Citizenship and Immigration Minister and Social Solidarity Minister under former Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard and as Environment Minister under former Premier Bernard Landry. He won the Parti Québécois leadership election on November 15, 2005. After the worst defeat of his Party since 1970 in the 2007 Quebec general election, Boisclair announced he was stepping down as leader of the PQ on May 8, 2007. François Gendron was named interim leader. On June 19, 2022, Boisclair pled guilty to two counts of sexual assault in separate episodes involving two young men. On July 18, 2022, the Quebec Court accepted a joint sentence recommendation from the Crown prosecutor and defence counsel, and imposed a sentence of imprisonment for two years less a day.
Related people
Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.
.jpg)
Hossein Derakhshan1975CanadaHossein Derakhshan (Persian: ØسÙ٠درخشاÙ; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian-Canadian blogger, journalist, and researcher who was imprisoned in Tehran from November 2008 to November 2014.
Chuggo1971Canada- Robert Pickton1949–2024Canada
Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 â May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian pig farmer and serial killer.
Conrad Black1944Canada
Paul Watson1950CanadaPaul Franklin Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American environmental, conservation and animal rights activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation activism.
Omar Khadr1986CanadaOmar Ahmed Said Khadr (Arabic: ع٠ر Ø£Ø٠د سعÙد خضر, romanized: Ê»Umar Aḥmad Saʻīd Khiá¸r; born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who, at the age of 15, was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S.