Preceded by Gilles Duceppe Name Rheal Fortin Role Lawyer | Political party Bloc Quebecois Party Bloc Quebecois Profession Lawyer | |
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Preceded by Pierre Dionne Labelle | ||
Rh al fortin question du 11 d cembre 2015
Rhéal Fortin ([ʁeal fɔʁtɛ̃]) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and interim leader of the Bloc Québécois. A lawyer by profession, he is the president of Bissonnette Fortin Giroux, a law firm in Saint-Jérôme. He studied law at University of Sherbrooke. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2015 election in Rivière-du-Nord as a member of the Bloc Québécois.
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- Rh al fortin question du 11 d cembre 2015
- Rhe al fortin candidat du bloc que be cois dans rivie re du nord
- Biography
- Political career
- References
Fortin was named interim leader of the Bloc Québécois on October 22, 2015 following the resignation of Gilles Duceppe as leader after Duceppe was unable to win his seat in the October 19, 2015 federal election.
Rhe al fortin candidat du bloc que be cois dans rivie re du nord
Biography
Fortin started working when he was 18. He completed a CEGEP electrician's diploma, equivalent to junior college. He was a worker in a factory in Laval from 1977 to 1985, at which time he left to attend university to study law. After completing his legal education, he began practising law in Saint-Jérôme in 1992.
Political career
He has been politically active ever since high school, when he volunteered to put up lawn signs for the Parti Québécois. He ran for the Parti Québécois nomination for the election for the National Assembly of Quebec for Prévost, but lost to Gilles Robert. In 2015 he ran for the Bloc Québécois in the riding Rivière-du-Nord and won. He became the interim leader of Bloc Québécois on October 22, 2015. On December 7, 2016, he announced that he would not be seeking the permanent leadership of the party at its leadership election in 2017.
He is currently the BQ's critic for intergovernmental affairs, human rights, justice, and access to information in the House of Commons.
