Yves Michaud (French: [iv miʃo]; February 13, 1930 – March 19, 2024) was a Canadian politician in Quebec who was a sovereigntist and pur et dur supporter of the Parti Québécois.
In 1959, he received a Canada Council grant to study journalism in France at the Université de Strasbourg.
In 1969, Michaud left the Liberal Party and sat as an Independent to protest against the passage of Bill 63, a controversial language legislation.
In December 2000 Yves Michaud announced that he would seek the Parti Québécois nomination for a by-election in the district of Mercier.
However, as the affair went along, due notably to Michaud's open defence of Quebecker nationalism, he was increasingly portrayed by some as an anti-semite and denier of the Shoah, which he always categorically said he was not.
Lucien Bouchard is also said to have been influenced by the weight of the affair (which received extremely negative coverage in the international press) to resign as Premier of Quebec in 2001 (although he did not admit it).