Death
Lapointe died in office in 1941, leaving the cabinet without significant Quebec ministers, and placing the Canadian government in serious trouble. Finally, the party decided to appoint the reluctant Louis Saint-Laurent to the cabinet as the new minister of justice, when PM King personally solicited his support.
His son, Hugues Lapointe, was also a parliamentarian and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Read more about this topic: Ernest Lapointe
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“You listen to artists fighting with each other, competing to the death like gladiators, in order to see who is going to get into a show, who is going to make it, who isn’t: who is going to get a full-page ad and who is going to get a half-page. Then I think, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go off somewhere and just do your work?””
—Howardena Pindell (b. 1943)
“Ai! ai! we do worse! We are in a fix! And you’re out, Death let
you out, Death had the Mercy, you’re done with your century, done with God, done with the path thru it—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)