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Canadian politician (1951–2015) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilles Rhéaume (25 October 1951 – 8 February 2015) was the former Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal president from 1981 to 1985.
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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]
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