Gérard Filion, CC GOQ MSRC (August 18, 1909 – March 26, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and journalist.
Born in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, the youngest of 17 children, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Université Laval in 1931 and a diploma in 1934 from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.
In 1947 he began publishing Le Devoir and used the paper to rise to the unions’ defence against Maurice Duplessis, the province’s Premier.
Duplessis was the leader of Quebec’s conservative Union Nationale government and Filion became one of his fiercest opponents.
Without having the Premier as an opponent, Filion doubted he ever would have published such excellent work during his time with Le Devoir.