Gilles Rocheleau (28 August 1935 – 27 June 1998) was a member of theHouse of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded theBloc Québécois withLucien Bouchard in 1990.

Rocheleau was born inHull, Quebec, he was a businessman by career. His post-secondary education was at theUniversity of Ottawa. He became a city councillor in 1967, then mayor from 1974 to 1981.^[1] He was elected as a member of theNational Assembly of Quebec in 1981 inHull as a member of theLiberal Party of Quebec. He was again elected to the Assembly in 1985 and became a cabinet minister in PremierRobert Bourassa's administration.

He left provincial politics to campaign in the1988 federal election in theHull—Aylmer electoral district for the nationalLiberal party. He served in the34th Canadian Parliament until he left the party on 2 July 1990 following the implosion of theMeech Lake Accord. After several months as an independent, he became a charter member of the Bloc Québécois party on 20 December 1990.

However, Rocheleau's embrace ofQuebec sovereigntism did not play well in his strongly federalist riding, and he was roundly defeated byLiberal candidateMarcel Massé in the1993 federal election, losing almost half of his vote from 1988.

He was married twice: to Denise Gagné in 1956 and then later to Hélène Roy.

Rocheleau died in Hull at the age of 62.

• Gilles Rocheleau – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Biography".Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French).National Assembly of Quebec.
• Hansard (House of Commons Debates) #128: The Late Gilles Rocheleau, 29 September 1998.

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