Marc-André Bédard (politician)

Bédard unsuccessfully ran as the Parti Québécois candidate to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1970 in the district of Chicoutimi, finishing a close third with 30% of the vote.

[1] As Minister of Justice, in 1981 Bédard ordered the inquest into the 1964 death of John Watkins, the Canadian Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

[3][4] Bédard was instrumental in recruiting Lucien Bouchard to the separatist cause when he convinced the future Pequiste premier to abandon the Liberal party and become his personal communications director in 1973.

With the failure of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, Bédard joined with Bernard Landry in lobbying the Quebec caucus of the PC party in Ottawa to bolt and establish their own political movement.

His son Stéphane was Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the provincial riding of Chicoutimi from 1998 to 2015.