Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe

He served as the critic of immigration, refugees, citizenship and human rights in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet of the 44th Parliament of Canada.^[3]

In March 2021, the MP was banned from visiting China and Russia. The ban was imposed by China on Canadian parliamentarians after they passed a motion to recognize the genocide of China's Muslim minorities: the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.^[4]

The motion was amended by the Bloc Québécois to include a request that the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing be moved.^[5]

At the World Uyghur Congress in Prague in November 2021, Brunelle-Duceppe presented a resolution, unanimously adopted by Uyghurs from 19 countries and political observers from ten countries (including the USA, Germany, France and England), to request that the International Olympic Committee and its national committees postpone the 2022 Winter Olympics in order to leave the field clear for an international observation mission from the United Nations^[6] and thus avoid holding what he described as the “Games of Shame” in an open letter signed by almost 30 people, including Liberal, Conservative, New Democrat and Green Party elected representatives, as well as public figures such as former Olympic champion Jean-Luc Brassard.^[7]

In June 2024, the Parliament of Canada passed a unanimous motion in the House of Commons calling for Tibet’s right to self-determination. The motion refers to Tibetans as “people and a nation” with the right to choose their own social, economic, cultural, and religious policies, including the selection of the next Dalai Lama. The motion was sponsored by the Bloc Quebecois and introduced in the House by Brunelle-Duceppe.^[8]

In November 2024, after reporting revealed that an Iranian assassination attempt against former Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler had been stopped, Brunelle-Duceppe introduced a motion condemning the attack, which was adopted by unanimous consent of the House.^[9]

He was re-elected for the third time in the 2025 election with 46.2% of the vote and a majority of more than 9,500 voices.^[10] He then became the spokesperson for foreign affairs and international development, while keeping his responsibilities as critic of immigration, refugees, citizenship and human rights for the Bloc Québécois.^[11] He was also elected vice chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration and the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 45th Canadian Parliament in 2025.

He is the son of former party leader Gilles Duceppe.^[14]