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Raymond Gravel (November 4, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was a Canadian Catholic priest and politician from the province of Quebec. Gravel was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Repentigny, as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected to the House of Commons in a November 27, 2006 by-election following the death of Benoît Sauvageau. He was acclaimed as the Bloc's candidate on October 29, 2006. He received a dispensation from , Bishop of Joliette, to enter politics. Elected with a large majority in the Bloc stronghold, he became the Bloc critic for seniors' issues.

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  • رايموند غرافل هو سياسي كندي، ولد في 4 نوفمبر 1952 في Saint-Damien ‏ في كندا، وتوفي في 11 أغسطس 2014 في Lanaudière ‏ في كندا بسبب سرطان الرئة. نشط حزبياً في الكتلة الكيبيكية. وقد انتخب عضو مجلس العموم الكندي وقد انضم خلال ‏ للكتلة البرلمانية الكتلة الكيبيكية وانتخب عضو مجلس العموم الكندي. (ar)
  • Raymond Gravel (* 4. November 1952 in , Québec; † 11. August 2014 in Joliette, Québec) war ein kanadischer römisch-katholischer Priester und Abgeordneter im kanadischen Unterhaus. (de)
  • Raymond Gravel (November 4, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was a Canadian Catholic priest and politician from the province of Quebec. Gravel was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Repentigny, as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected to the House of Commons in a November 27, 2006 by-election following the death of Benoît Sauvageau. As a young man Gravel worked in bars in Montreal's Gay Village; he was open about the fact that he was a sex-trade worker during that time. Although Gravel never came out publicly as homosexual during his lifetime, he acknowledged his homosexuality to his biographer, Claude Gravel, prior to his death. He entered the seminary in 1982 and became a priest. Gravel was controversial among the Catholic clergy and laity for his support of abortion rights, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, three issues officially opposed by the Church. He was most recently a priest at St-Joachim de la Plaine Church in La Plaine, Quebec. He was acclaimed as the Bloc's candidate on October 29, 2006. He received a dispensation from , Bishop of Joliette, to enter politics. Elected with a large majority in the Bloc stronghold, he became the Bloc critic for seniors' issues. However, following his opposition to Bill C-484, which would have recognized injury of a fetus during a crime as a separate offence from an injury to the mother, and his support for Dr. Henry Morgentaler receiving the Order of Canada, Gravel was ordered by the Vatican to either give up the priesthood or leave politics, and he finally announced he would not run in the 2008 election, saying that the priesthood was his life. He cited as his biggest regret his inability to pass his private member's bill C-490, which aimed to improve seniors' access to guaranteed income supplements. He was removed from a position as a catechist in the Quebec Diocese of Joliette during 2010. Gravel then launched a lawsuit against the LifeSiteNews (LSN) agency, a project of the Campaign Life Coalition, for $500,000 in damages. In his motion, Gravel suggested that articles on the LSN website caused him to lose this responsibility. Gravel stated that LSN misrepresented him by identifying him as 'pro-abortion' while he identified himself as 'pro-choice'. In an interview with Radio-Canada, he stated: "I am pro-choice and there is not a bishop on Earth that will prevent me from receiving communion, not even the Pope." However, he later stated, "I am against abortion, but I am not in favour of the pro-life campaign that condemns all women who get an abortion." In 2014, he died of lung cancer. He was 61. (en)
  • Raymond Gravel, né Joseph Henri Raymond Gravel le 4 novembre 1952 à Saint-Damien-de-Brandon et mort le 11 août 2014 à Joliette (Québec), est un prêtre catholique et un homme politique québécois. Il a été le député bloquiste de Repentigny à la Chambre des communes du Canada. (fr)
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  • رايموند غرافل هو سياسي كندي، ولد في 4 نوفمبر 1952 في Saint-Damien ‏ في كندا، وتوفي في 11 أغسطس 2014 في Lanaudière ‏ في كندا بسبب سرطان الرئة. نشط حزبياً في الكتلة الكيبيكية. وقد انتخب عضو مجلس العموم الكندي وقد انضم خلال ‏ للكتلة البرلمانية الكتلة الكيبيكية وانتخب عضو مجلس العموم الكندي. (ar)
  • Raymond Gravel (* 4. November 1952 in , Québec; † 11. August 2014 in Joliette, Québec) war ein kanadischer römisch-katholischer Priester und Abgeordneter im kanadischen Unterhaus. (de)
  • Raymond Gravel, né Joseph Henri Raymond Gravel le 4 novembre 1952 à Saint-Damien-de-Brandon et mort le 11 août 2014 à Joliette (Québec), est un prêtre catholique et un homme politique québécois. Il a été le député bloquiste de Repentigny à la Chambre des communes du Canada. (fr)
  • Raymond Gravel (November 4, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was a Canadian Catholic priest and politician from the province of Quebec. Gravel was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Repentigny, as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected to the House of Commons in a November 27, 2006 by-election following the death of Benoît Sauvageau. He was acclaimed as the Bloc's candidate on October 29, 2006. He received a dispensation from , Bishop of Joliette, to enter politics. Elected with a large majority in the Bloc stronghold, he became the Bloc critic for seniors' issues. (en)
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  • Raymond Gravel (en)
  • رايموند غرافل (ar)
  • Raymond Gravel (de)
  • Raymond Gravel (fr)
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