Former Quebec cabinet minister Michel Pagé dies at 63

By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted September 6, 2013 9:40 am

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The Quebec government plans to reopen the constitutional debate and will launch a vast coast-to-coast discussion in the coming months, Thursday, June 1, 2017. — Quebec and Canada flying flags photographed in Montreal. Denis Beaumont / The Canadian Press Images

MONTREAL – Michel Pagé, a former Liberal cabinet minister in Quebec, has died at the age of 63 following a lengthy illness.

Pagé served for 19 years in the Quebec legislature and represented the riding of Portneuf from 1973 to 1992.

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A lawyer by training, Pagé was a minister of education in the Robert Bourassa government when it returned to power in 1985.

He also served as Quebec‘s minister of agriculture before being named the chief whip of the official opposition in the 1980s.

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