Jacques Joli-Cœur, (born 1940) is a
politician
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from the
Renouveau municipal de Québec in
Quebec
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, Canada. A city councillor and deputy mayor, he was the
interim mayor
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of
Quebec City
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following the death of
Andrée Boucher on August 24, 2007.
Prior his involvement in municipal politics, he was a top civil servant in the provincial government, where he served as provincial director of protocol between 1979 and 1984 and as an assistant deputy minister for several departments between 1994 and 2001.
Elected as councillor for district of ''Samuel-de-Champlain'' in the borough of
La Cité-Limoilou
La Cité-Limoilou () is the central borough of Quebec City, the oldest (in terms of architecture), and the most populous, comprising 19.73% of the city's total population. As an administrative division, it is very new, having only been formed ...
in 2001, he lost in the new district of ''Vieux-Québec-Montcalm'' to Anne Guérette in 2009.
In 2012, he was made a Knight of the
National Order of Quebec
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.
References
External links
Profile on RMQ official website
1940 births
21st-century mayors of places in Quebec
Mayors of Quebec City
Living people
Knights of the National Order of Quebec
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