Retirement
He retired from politics in September 1994 and died in Montreal, on February 9, 2004, at 4:20 a.m, of stomach cancer. In 1995, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 2006, he was posthumously made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
After his death, he was the target of bitter insults by controversial sovereignist film director Pierre Falardeau who said of him: “Claude Ryan était une pourriture et sa mort est une bonne chose de faite” (Claude Ryan was completely rotten and his death is quite a good thing done). Falardeau's comments met with general disapproval from all sides of the political spectrum.
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