GEORGES-ÉTIENNE CARTIER, 69 / PSYCHIATRIST, POLITICIAN
A separatist maverick who, like his patriotic Confederation namesake, loved Quebec
Cartier could be a fierce opponent, be it across a dinner table with friends or on the stump for the Parti Québécois
LISA FITTERMAN Special to The Globe and Mail - Voluble, erudite and curious, Georges-Étienne Cartier was a modern-day Renaissance man who could speak as passionately to the minutiae of fly fishing as he could about Voltaire, colonialism and why Quebec needed to separate from the rest of Canada. A psychiatrist by training who also studied law to enhance his understanding of politics, he was a fierce...