What is Royal Galipeau?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = | name = Royal N. Galipeau | honorific-suffix = | image = Royal_Galipeau.jpg | riding = [[Ottawa—Orléans]] | parliament = Canadian | term_start = January 23, 2006 | term_end = October 19, 2015 | predecessor = [[Marc Godbout]] | successor = [[Andrew Leslie (general)|Andrew Leslie]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1947|01|05}} | birth_place = [[St. Isidore, Ontario|St-Isidore]], [[Ontario]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|01|27|1947|01|05}} | death_place = [[Ottawa]], Ontario | party = [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] | spouse = Anne Pallascio | children = Louis, Paul, Claude & Mimi | residence = Ottawa | profession = Advisor, businessman, corporate director | footnotes = }} '''Royal Galipeau''' (January 5, 1947 – January 27, 2018) was a Canadian politician and businessman. He served as a [[Member of Parliament]] for the [[Orléans (electoral district)|Ottawa—Orléans]] federal constituency. He was first elected as a [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]] candidate in the 2006 election, and was reelected in 2008 and 2011. He lost in the 2015 t0 retired [[Canadian Forces]] [[Lieutenant-general (Canada)|Lieutenant-General]] [[Andrew Leslie (general)|Andrew Leslie]]. In February 2014, he was diagnosed with [[multiple myeloma]], but insisted he would run for office again in the 2015 election.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/mp-royal-galipeau-battling-cancer|title=MP Royal Galipeau battling cancer|date=February 5, 2014|last=Butler|first=Don|work=Ottawa Citizen|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> He died form the disease on January 27, 2018 in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]] at the age of 70.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/royal-galipeau-former-orleans-mp-dies-cancer-1.4507455|title=Former Orléans MP Royal Galipeau dies of cancer|date=27 January 2018|publisher=CBC.ca