In the first case, Boisclair pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault involving another person, dating back to January 2014. He had also been charged in that case with a gun assault, but that charge remained. In the second case, Boisclair, 56, pleaded guilty to sexual assault for events that took place in November 2015. Boisclair victims, whose identities are protected from publication, told the court how the attacks changed their lives. A man testified on Monday that he had dropped out of university and given up his dream of a career in politics because of what Boisclair had done to him. The Crown and the defense filed a joint sentence of two years minus one day in prison. Quebec court judge Pierre Labelle said Monday he would discuss and hand down his sentence on July 18. Boisclair was a provincial cabinet minister and served as PQ leader between 2005 and 2007 when the party was in opposition. He was Quebec’s general representative in New York from 2012 to 2013 and was president of the Quebec Urban Development Institute from 2016 until his arrest in May 2018.
