Gilles Rhéaume

Gilles Rhéaume

Gilles Rhéaume (25 October 1951 – 8 February 2015) was the former Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal president from 1981 to 1985.

Rhéaume was leader of the Parti indépendantiste of Quebec from 1987 to its dissolution in 1990. He was later president of the Mouvement souverainiste du Québec.[1]

He often denounced the use of English. He once organized a protest outside the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal after Radio-Canada journalist Normand Lester reported that a nurse asked Lester to speak English.[2]

In the 1990s he worked for a group supporting HIV-AIDS patients.[2] He died at the Pierre-Boucher hospital in Longueuil in 2015, aged 63.[3]

References

  1. ^ "'Pit Bill' Johnson steps down as head of Alliance Quebec - Canada - CBC News". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b "French language activist Gilles Rhéaume dead at 63". CTV Montreal. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Gilles Rhéaume, former president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, dies at 63". Montreal Gazette. Presse Canadienne. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.


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