Hugô St-Onge
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
Hugô St-Onge is a politician in Quebec, Canada. Since 2002, he has been the leader of the Bloc pot. The Bloc pot is a Quebec political party dedicated to the end of marijuana prohibition.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/30/1070127272509.html|title=High times at new Montreal marijuana cafe|date=1 December 2003|work=Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=AP|access-date=30 August 2010}}[https://archive.today/20130115151017/http://monvote.qc.ca/mobile/fr/partis-et-candidats/partis-politiques.asp?parti=00059][https://archive.today/20130115155816/http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/christiane_charette/2010-2011/chronique.asp?idChronique=33999]
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| name = Hugô St-Onge
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| office = Leader of the Bloc pot
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| term_start = 2002
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| predecessor = Alexandre Néron
| office1 = Interim Leader of the Nova Scotia Marijuana Party of Canada (unregistered)
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| term_start1 = Early may, 2000
| term_end1 = Late may, 2000
| predecessor1 = Party founded*
| successor1 = Unknown
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He founded in 1999 along with other Bloc pot activists the Club compassion of Montreal a collective project to distribute cannabis for medicinal uses.{{Cite web |url=http://www.clubcompassion.org/accueil_ccm.htm/ |title=Le Centre Compassion de Montréal |access-date=2012-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819133938/http://www.clubcompassion.org/accueil_ccm.htm |archive-date=2012-08-19 |url-status=dead }}
In May 2000 he collaborated in the creation a new political party in Nova Scotia called The Marijuana Party of Canada.{{Cite web |url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/47/47065.htm |title=Radio-Canada.ca - Nouvelles: "Le Parti Marijuana est né" |access-date=2012-09-01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115232711/http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/47/47065.htm |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead }}
Electoral record
- 2007 Quebec general election, Gouin, 147 votes (winning candidate: Nicolas Girard, Parti Québécois)
- 2006 Canadian federal election, Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, 419 votes (winning candidate: Bernard Bigras, Bloc Québécois)
- Quebec by-election, 2004, Gouin, 148 votes (winning candidate: Nicolas Girard, Parti Québécois)
- 2003 Nova Scotia general election, Dartmouth East, 101 votes (winning candidate: Joan Massey, New Democratic Party)
- 2003 Quebec general election, Gouin, 465 votes (winning candidate: André Boisclair, Parti Québécois)
- Quebec by-election, 2001, Labelle, 350 votes (winning candidate: Sylvain Pagé, Parti Québécois)
- 1998 Quebec general election, Marguerite-D'Youville, 327 votes (winning candidate: François Beaulne, Parti Québécois)
References
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Category:Canadian cannabis activists
Category:Quebec political party leaders
Category:Quebec candidates for Member of Parliament
Category:Candidates in Quebec provincial elections
Category:Candidates in Nova Scotia provincial elections
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