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He resigned his posts on 2 May 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/parti-quebecois-pierre-karl-peladeau-announcement-1.3562533|title=Pierre Karl Péladeau quits as Parti Québécois leader|publisher=CBC News|date=2 May 2016|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref>
= Philanthropy and commitments =
==Personal life==▼
As CEO of Quebecor, Péladeau oversees the company’s philanthropic commitments. Quebecor supports more than 400 organizations and partners across Québec each year. Following his father’s precepts, Péladeau allocates nearly half of the company’s annual contributions to organizations that defend and promote Québec culture and the French language.
Péladeau is also president of the Fondation Chopin-Péladeau, a private family foundation named in memory of his parents, Raymonde Chopin and Pierre Péladeau. For years, the foundation has concentrated on supporting suicide prevention organizations.
Carrying on the legacy of his father, who believed that businesses have a responsibility to contribute to the creation of collective wealth, he made a mark on Québec’s philanthropic scene in 2018 and 2022 with major donations to the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Université de Montréal.
On February 13, 2018, the Fondation du CHUM announced a $15 million donation from Péladeau and Quebecor to its “Donnons-nous le meilleur de la santé” fundraising campaign. It was the largest donation in the foundation’s history. As a token of recognition, the CHUM named its new auditorium, which opened in June 2021, after Pierre Péladeau.
Pierre Karl Péladeau also expressed his intention to support one of Montréal’s institutions of higher learning. On February 16, 2022, the rector of Université de Montréal, Daniel Jutras, stated that “a new chapter in the philanthropic history of Université de Montréal is opening” after the university received an historic $40 million gift from Péladeau, the Fondation Chopin-Péladeau and Quebecor. The money is being used to fund Millénium Québecor, a comprehensive entrepreneurship awareness, training and support program, and to construct a building to be named in honour of Quebecor’s founder.
As a film-lover who believes that cinema is the best vehicle for representing a nation and its culture, Péladeau set up and financially supports “Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema,” Quebecor’s largest philanthropic project. Launched in 2008, it is dedicated to restoring, digitizing and making widely available Québec movies in order to keep Québec’s extensive film heritage alive. Without Éléphant, many major Québec works would be virtually impossible to view and to share with future generations.
In 2012, he oversaw the creation of the Quebecor Gallery. Located on the ground floor of the company’s Montréal head office building, the space, which presents exhibitions throughout the year, is designed to give employees and visitors a chance to discover works by Québec artists.
He is also involved in Québec’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, supporting business start-ups that contribute to the diversification and growth of Québec’s economy. He has supported the Pierre Péladeau Bursaries since their creation in 1999. To date, more than $2.3 million has been distributed to Québec student entrepreneurs to support the creation of more than 60 businesses in Québec.
Péladeau is the architect of the Research Institute on Self-Determination of Peoples and National Independence (IRAI). Founded in 2016 and chaired by professor and constitutionalist Daniel Turp, IRAI is an independent research institute that produces, disseminates, intervenes in and makes accessible studies on the self-determination of peoples and national independence in order to increase scientific knowledge and promote open, constructive citizen dialogue on the future of nations.
▲== Personal life ==
Péladeau has a daughter, Marie (born 2000), from his previous relationship with Isabelle Hervet, a native of France.<ref name=lapresse/>
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