Former Orléans MP Royal Galipeau dead at 71

Tributes poured in Saturday as news broke that former Orléans MP Royal Galipeau had died of multiple myeloma.
He was 71.
“Royal was always a true gentleman and was a passionate voice for Orléans as a city councillor, library board member and M.P.,” Mayor Jim Watson said on Twitter. 
Bryan Michaud, Galipeau’s executive assistant as an MP from 2011 until 2015, announced that his “friend and mentor” died peacefully Saturday afternoon from complicatio