Jacques Joli-Cœur

Jacques Joli-Cœur, (born 1940) is a politician from the Renouveau municipal de Québec in Quebec, Canada. A city councillor and deputy mayor, he was the interim mayor of Quebec City following the death of Andrée Boucher on August 24, 2007.

Prior his involvement in municipal politics, he was a top civil servant in the provincial government, where he served as provincial director of protocol between 1979 and 1984 and as an assistant deputy minister for several departments between 1994 and 2001.

Elected as councillor for district of Samuel-de-Champlain in the borough of La Cité-Limoilou in 2001, he lost in the new district of Vieux-Québec-Montcalm to Anne Guérette in 2009.

In 2012, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.