| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Gérard Pelletier | |
| Office: | Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Term Start: | August 1981 |
| Term End: | July 1984 |
| Primeminister: | Pierre Trudeau John Turner |
| Predecessor: | Michel Dupuy |
| Successor: | Stephen Lewis |
| Office1: | Canadian Ambassador to France |
| Primeminister1: | Pierre Trudeau Joe Clark |
| Term Start1: | September 4, 1975 |
| Term End1: | July 17, 1981 |
| Predecessor1: | Léo Cadieux |
| Successor1: | Michel Dupuy |
| Office2: | Minister of Communications |
| Primeminister2: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start2: | November 27, 1972 |
| Term End2: | August 28, 1975 |
| Predecessor2: | Robert Stanbury |
| Successor2: | Pierre Juneau |
| Primeminister3: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start3: | May 11, 1971 |
| Term End3: | August 11, 1971 |
| Predecessor3: | Jean-Pierre Côté (acting) |
| Successor3: | Robert Stanbury |
| Termlabel3: | Acting |
| Office4: | Secretary of State for Canada |
| Primeminister4: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start4: | July 6, 1968 |
| Term End4: | November 26, 1972 |
| Predecessor4: | Jean Marchand |
| Successor4: | Hugh Faulkner |
| Office5: | Minister without portfolio |
| Primeminister5: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start5: | April 20, 1968 |
| Term End5: | July 5, 1968 |
| Riding6: | Hochelaga |
| Parliament6: | Canadian |
| Term Start6: | November 8, 1965 |
| Term End6: | August 29, 1975 |
| Predecessor6: | Raymond Eudes |
| Successor6: | Jacques Lavoie |
| Birth Date: | 21 June 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada |
| Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: | |
Gérard Pelletier (in French pɛltje/; June 21, 1919 – June 22, 1997) was a Canadian journalist and politician.[1]
Pelletier initially worked as a journalist for Le Devoir, a French-language newspaper in Montreal, Quebec. In 1961 he became editor-in-chief of the Montreal daily and North America's largest French circulating newspaper, La Presse. Pelletier, with other French-Canadian intellectuals, Pierre Elliott Trudeau included, founded the journal Cité Libre. First elected to Parliament in 1965, he served as a member of the cabinet of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Pelletier met Trudeau while studying in France and worked with him and Jean Marchand during the Asbestos Strike of 1949 in Quebec. Dubbed the "Three Wise Men" in English and Les trois colombes (The three doves) in French, they entered politics at the same time in the federal election of 1965. The trio was recruited by Liberal prime minister Lester Pearson to help derail the rising Quebec separatist movement.
He served in various cabinet posts in the Trudeau government until 1975 (Secretary of State: 1968–1973, Minister of Communications: 1973–5), when he left the Liberal caucus and became ambassador to France and then ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1984). In 1978 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.