Ghislain Lebel
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Ghislain Lebel (born February 17, 1946 in Lévis, Quebec) is a Quebecois politician and notary.
[edit] Biography
Ghislain Lebel has been a militant of the Quebec independence movement since his teenage years, having been part of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale, the Mouvement souveraineté-association and the Parti Québécois since its early days.
A former Bloc Québécois MP, he quit his seat because of his sharp criticism of the Approche commune, an agreement with the Innu people signed by the Government of Quebec, then lead by Bernard Landry and the Bloc's brother sovereigntist party, the Parti Québécois.
He entered the Parti Québécois leadership campaign in 2005, in which he defended a more traditional form of nationalism and ideas relatively less to the left than the other social democratic candidates. He won 458 votes, 0.4% of all ballots cast.