Hugô St-Onge is a

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, Canada. Since 2002, he has been the leader of the

Bloc pot The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested four provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was laun ...

. The Bloc pot is a Quebec political party dedicated to the end of

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prohibition. He founded in 1999 along with other Bloc pot activists the Club compassion of Montreal a collective project to distribute

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for

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uses. In May 2000 he collaborated in the creation a new political party in Nova Scotia called The Marijuana Party of Canada.

Electoral record

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, Gouin, 147 votes (winning candidate:

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, Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, 419 votes (winning candidate: Bernard Bigras,

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) *Quebec by-election, 2004, Gouin, 148 votes (winning candidate:

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2003 Nova Scotia general election The 2003 Nova Scotia general election was held on August 5, 2003, to elect members of the 59th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The ruling Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier John Hamm, was reduced to a minor ...

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, 101 votes (winning candidate: Joan Massey,

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2003 Quebec general election The 2003 Quebec general election was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec (Canada). The Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Berna ...

, Gouin, 465 votes (winning candidate:

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) *Quebec by-election, 2001,

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, 350 votes (winning candidate:

Sylvain Pagé Sylvain Pagé (born January 9, 1961) is a Canadian businessman and politician. Pagé is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Labelle in the Laurentians, elected in 2001. He is a member of the Parti Québécois. B ...

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1998 Quebec general election The 1998 Quebec general election was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Li ...

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, 327 votes (winning candidate:

François Beaulne François Beaulne (born November 28, 1946) is a Quebec politician, he is the son of diplomats Yvon Beaulne and Thérèse Pratte. Biography Beaulne earned two master's degree from the University of Ottawa, in political science and in business ...

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