Pierre Péladeau, (April 11, 1925 – December 24, 1997) was a French-Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media and telecommunications conglomerate in Quebec. He was the father of billionaire Pierre Karl Péladeau, former Parti Québécois leader. Biography Péladeau was born in Montreal on April 11, 1925 as the youngest of seven children of Henri Péladeau, who had a successful timber business. Whilst on a sales trip to Europe in 1929, the stock market crashed and on his fathers return to Montreal he found that his two partners had taken control of the business. This event undoubtedly affected Pierre Peladeau's attitude to business and his business partners. Péladeau had four children, Erik, Isabelle, Pierre Karl, and Anne-Marie, with his first wife, Raymonde Chopin, who died in 1976. Pierre Karl Péladeau would serve as CEO of Quebecor before serving one year as leader of the Parti Québécois from May 2015 to May 2016. Érik Péladeau served as a former Vice-Chairman of Quebecor Inc. He had two children, Simon-Pierre and Esther with his second wife, Line Parisien, whom he divorced and regretted it. Péladeau had a relationship with Manon Blanchette that produced one son and he ended his relationship with his long term partner, Anne Béland. Péladeau's time spent with Quebecor meant that he was often an absent father to his children. In 1987 Péladeau told The Globe and Mail that "I've had all the women I wanted, when I wanted them." Péladeau also openly boasted that he only spoke English when he could make a profit by doing so. In 1989, Péladeau said that women had no place on corporate boards because "they seduce too much." In 1990, Péladeau was quoted in l'Actualite magazine saying that Jews "take up too much space'" in Quebec, and was forced to issue a statement of apology claiming that he meant it in the context of Jewish fashion designers getting the lion's share of coverage from Montreal newspapers. Education and career He attended College Jean-de-Brebeuf (a private school also attended by Pierre Elliott Trudeau). He then went on to complete a degree in philosophy at the Université de Montréal, and a law degree at McGill University. While studying for the bar exam in 1950, Péladeau purchased a struggling community paper, Le Journal de Rosemont, including their printing works, with a $1,500 loan from his mother, Elmire, which became "Nouvelles et Potins"