Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois MNA |
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois at the student protest on March 22, 2012, at the Place du Canada in Montreal.
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| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Gouin | |
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Assumed office May 29, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Françoise David |
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| Born |
May 31, 1990 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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UQÀM Studying philosophy at Université de Montréal |
| Occupation | Activist, writer |
| Awards | Prix impératif français (2013) |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is a Canadian politician from Quebec. With Manon Massé, he is the co-spokeperson of the left-wing party Québec solidaire since May 21, 2017, and was elected as a member of the provincial legislative assembly on May 29, 2017. Before his arrival in active politics, he was well known for his role during the 2012 Quebec student protests as co-spokesperson of the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE), a broad coalition of student associations opposed to the $1,625 tuition hike introduced by Jean Charest's government. He quit that position on August 9, 2012.
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was born in a family of activists: his parents met in the Jeunesse Etudiante Chrétienne (Young Christian Students). His father was also an environmental and union activist.
When he was young, he went with his father to demonstrations and union assemblies where was supposed to do his homework, but listened to the speeches instead. He became interested in politics and began reading La Presse hoping to become an international journalist.
At the Collège Regina Assumpta, a highly ranked private school in Montreal, he obtained good grades but questioned everything, although he "was not a rebel", according to his father, Gilles Dubois. When the school's management wanted to appoint student representatives, he opposed the decision, saying that students should elect them instead. His request was realized the following year.
In Fall 2007, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois joined the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) as a student at the Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne. That year, the student association decided in a general assembly to no longer be affiliated with the ASSÉ. Nadeau-Dubois unsuccessfully tried to get the student association to rejoin the ASSÉ. The young activist was nevertheless elected as vice-president of his student association and was in charge of external affairs.
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