Former Liberal cabinet minister Marc Lalonde died Sunday at the age of 93, Radio-Canada has confirmed.
Lalonde was chief of staff to former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from 1968 to 1972. He was at the forefront of the federal response to the October Crisis of 1970, during which the Trudeau government deployed the army in the streets of Montreal and invoked the War Measures Act.
A trained lawyer, Lalonde entered politics in the 1972 federal election, running for the riding of Outremont under the Liberal banner. He remained in office until 1984.
“Marc Lalonde was brilliant,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a
