(Montreal) Former federal minister Michel Dupuy is no more. He died Sunday at the age of 93 in Boucherville, the family announced in a press release.
Member of Parliament for Laval-Ouest in the 1990s, Mr. Dupuy was a minister under the government of Jean Chrétien.
He had previously worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as an ambassador.
Mr. Dupuy was born in Paris, France, in 1930. He is the son of Pierre Dupuy, who served as Commissioner General of the 1967 Universal Exhibition.
The former politician was educated in Montreal, and obtained a degree in economics at the University of Oxford, then a doctorate in international law at La Sorbonne, France.
Mr. Dupuy’s career began in the Privy Council Office. He had then collaborated in the realization of an important project for the artistic world, now known as the Canada Council for the Arts.
In the field of Foreign Affairs, he was deputy to the permanent representative of the Canadian delegation to NATO, and he chaired the Canadian International Development Agency.
Among his other career accomplishments, Mr. Dupuy has also served as Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations and Canada’s Ambassador to France.
After leaving public life, Mr. Dupuy devoted part of his time to writing his memoirs. He has also published six novels, including Diplomat from father to sonin 2012, and lullsin 2018.
Mr. Dupuy is survived by his wife, Micheline Dallaire as well as his sons Michel and Pierre-Alain, his daughter-in-law Sabine, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.