Ghislain Fournier (born 26 August 1938) was a member of the

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from 1997 to 2004. He is a

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by career, including

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work. He was elected in the Manicouagan electoral district under the

Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (BQ; , "Québécois people, Quebecer Voting bloc, Bloc") is a list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Que ...

party in the 1997 and 2000 elections, serving in the 36th and

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s respectively. Fournier left office in 2004, as he lost the Manicouagan riding's Bloc Québécois candidacy to

Gérard Asselin Gérard Asselin (born April 19, 1950 in Sainte-Flavie, Quebec - February 9, 2013) was a Canadian politician who was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Manicouagan from 2004 to 2011 and Char ...

. Asselin won the riding in that year's Canadian general election.

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''Hill Times'': 2004 federal election Quebec profile
21 June 2004, retrieved 12 July 2006 1938 births Living people Bloc Québécois MPs French Quebecers Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec People from Bas-Saint-Laurent 21st-century Canadian politicians {{BlocQuébécois-MP-stub