Former Quebec City mayor and provincial cabinet minister Jean-Paul L’Allier dies

Former Quebec City mayor and provincial cabinet minister Jean-Paul L’Allier dies

Main pic: Quebec City mayor Jean-Paul L’Allier, right, points something out to Federal Transport Minister, responsible for Quebec Jean Lapierre, left, on May 10, 2005, in Quebec City. The former Mayor of Quebec City died on Tuesday morning, January 5, 2016, at the age of 77. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot.

QUEBEC — Former Quebec City mayor Jean-Paul L’Allier has died at the age of 77.

He died early Tuesday at the city’s Hotel Dieu de Quebec hospital following a brief illness.

L’Allier, a native of Hudson, Que., served as mayor from 1989 to 2005.

He was also the minister of communications and cultural affairs in the first government of then-premier Robert Bourassa in the 1970s.

The Canadian Press

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