 He supported Montreal as a capital and opposed the choice of Ottawa; this led to the resignation of the government of John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier in 1858.Loranger continued as a member in the legislature until he was named judge in the Quebec Superior Court in 1863.In 1873, he published the first volume of "Commentaire sur le Code civil du Bas-Canada", a discussion of the civil code of Quebec; a second volume was published in 1879 but the work was never completed.