Gilles Duceppe

Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian politician, proponent of the Qubec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Qubcois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for overyears and has been the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Qubcois foryears in three stints 1996, 19972011 and in 2015. He is the son of a wellknown Quebec actor, Jean Duceppe. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party candidate Hlne Laverdire and his party suffered a heavy defeat however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdire again, he resigned once more.

Duceppe was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Hlne and actor Jean Duceppe. His maternal grandfather was John James Rowley, a Briton by birth and a home child. Duceppe often quips of his British roots, once saying Im a bloke who turned Bloc.

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