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André Boisclair
1966
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- Canada
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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.
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