Mario Beaulieu (politician)
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Mario Beaulieu MP |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for La Pointe-de-l'Île |
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Assumed office November 4, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Ève Péclet |
| Leader of the Bloc Québécois | |
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In office June 25, 2014 – June 10, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel Paillé |
| Succeeded by | Gilles Duceppe |
| President of the Bloc Québécois | |
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Assumed office June 25, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel Paillé |
| 80th President of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal | |
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In office 2009–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Jean Dorion |
| Succeeded by | Maxime Laporte |
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| Born | 1959 Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party |
Bloc Québécois, Parti Québécois |
Mario Beaulieu (French pronunciation: [maʁjo boljø]; born 1959) is a Québécois nationalist, who is president (2014–present) and was leader (2014–2015) of the Bloc Québécois. He was the president of the sovereigntist Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal from 2009 to 2014, and has been the spokesman for the Mouvement Québec français, a coalition of organizations in favour of the preservation and defence of the French language in Quebec.
Mario Beaulieu was born in 1959 in Sherbrooke; at age 4, his family moved to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
Bealieu was the president of the Parti Québécois's riding association in Montreal Centre from 1997 to 2002 and was an unsuccessful Bloc Québécois candidate in the 1997 federal election, losing to federal cabinet minister Pierre Pettigrew in Papineau—Saint-Denis. He has been a long-time advocate for strengthening measures requiring the predominance of the French language in Québec, as well as for Quebec independence.
In April 2014, he declared his candidacy for the leadership of the Bloc Québécois and received the endorsement of the executive of the Bloc's youth wing, former Parti Québécois legislative members Bernard Landry and Pierre Curzi, and the former president of the Mouvement Desjardins, Claude Béland. Beaulieu, viewed as a "hardline" sovereigntist, promised to prioritize achieving Quebec independence above everything else. On June 14, 2014, he defeated BQ Member of Parliament André Bellavance for the Bloc leadership with 53.5% of the vote. Beaulieu took office as Bloc leader at the party's convention on June 25, 2014.
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