Jacques Joli-Cœur

Jacques Joli-Cœur, CQ (born 1940) is a politician from the Renouveau municipal de Québec in Quebec, Canada. A city councillor and deputy mayor, he was the interim mayor of Quebec City following the death of Andrée Boucher on August 24, 2007.[1]

Jacques Joli-Cœur
40th Mayor of Quebec City
In office
August 24, 2007 – December 8, 2007
Preceded byAndrée Boucher
Succeeded byRégis Labeaume
City Councillor for district of Samuel-de-Champlain (La Cité-Limoilou)
In office
2001–2009
Succeeded bydistrict abolished (replaced by new district of Vieux-Québec-Montcalm)
Personal details
Born1940
Political partyRenouveau municipal de Québec

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.[2]

Elected as councillor for district of Samuel-de-Champlain in the borough of La Cité-Limoilou 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.[3]

References
  1. "La mairesse Boucher décédée". Radio-Canada (in French). 24 August 2007. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  2. "Jacques Joli-Cœur". Renouveau municipal de Québec (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  3. "Les récipiendaires de l'Ordre national du Québec" (in French). 28 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.


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