UPDATE: Tributes pour in for former PQ cabinet minister Lise Payette
Lise Payette, a Quebec journalist, broadcaster, author and former Parti Québécois cabinet minister died Wednesday at the age of 87.
Payette held several portfolios in a succession of PQ governments, including status of women, consumer affairs and social development.
Among her most enduring contributions while in government was a revision of the Quebec Civil Code that no longer made it obligatory for a woman to assume her husband’s family name, the creation of no-fault automob
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