Former longtime Liberal MNA Marc-Yvan Côté pleads guilty to weapons charges
CBC News | Posted: November 17, 2015 8:43 PM | Last Updated: November 17, 2015
Lawyer requests absolute discharge after weapons found poorly-stored during UPAC raid
Former Liberal cabinet minister Marc-Yvan Côté has pleaded guilty to two charges of negligent storage of firearms at his home in Baie-St-Paul.
The charges were laid — along with five others that were later dropped — after a UPAC investigation targeted his home in February 2014.
His lawyer has requested an absolute discharge.
Côté, 68, is a former high school teacher, who was first elected Liberal MNA for Matane in 1973.
He left politics three years later and returned to represent Charlesbourg from 1983 to 1994, serving in the cabinet as transport minister and minister of health and social services.