Frank Venneri | |
|---|---|
| Montreal City Councillor for the François-Perrault ward (known as the Jean-Rivard ward from 2001 to 2009) | |
| In office 2001–2009 | |
| Preceded by | Nicole Roy-Arcelin |
| In office 1998–2001 | |
| Preceded by | Vittorio Capparelli |
| Succeeded by | ward redistributed |
| In office 1986–1990 | |
| Preceded by | Rocco Luccisano |
| Succeeded by | Vittorio Capparelli |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Montreal Citizens' Movement (1986-1989) Montreal Municipal Party (1989-1992) Civic Party of Montreal (1992-1994) Montrealers' Party (1994-1995) Vision Montreal (1998-2003) Union Montreal (2003-2012) Independent (2012-) |
Frank Venneri is a politician in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1990,was re-elected in 1998,and has been returned to council in every election since then. Venneri is an independent councillor.
Venneri owned a hairstyling salon for over two decades before his election to city council and served as president of the Saint-Michel Optimist Club. [1] He owned a men's hairstyling salon during his time out of council in the 1990s. In 1995,he spoke against a proposed municipal by-law to permit hair salons in private homes. [2]
Venneri was first elected to council in 1986 municipal election for the east-end François-Perrault division. Running for the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM),he defeated incumbent councillor Rocco Luccisano of Civic Party of Montreal (CPM). [3] The MCM won a landslide victory in this election under Jean Doré's leadership. Venneri was initially a backbench supporter of the Doréadministration and served as a city representative on the regional Montreal Urban Community. [4]
In 1987,Venneri spoke against Miron Inc.'s plans to continue operating a cement-mixing business near his ward that had long been subject to complaints about noise,pollution,and heavy traffic. Miron's original quarry site had been purchased by the city in 1984 and shut down,but,due to an administrative error,the company later received a permit to build a new factory in the same area. The Montreal executive committee later revoked Miron's permit,but Venneri charged that the company did not immediately comply with this decision. [5] The city was ultimately able to take over the site without incident,and the quarry was demolished a year later.
Venneri ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the 1988 Canadian federal election in the division of Papineau—Saint-Michel. As the MCM's constitution prevented party members from running for other parties (at any level of government),he was required to resign from caucus and sit as an independent councillor. [6] Some political pundits believed that Venneri could win election to the House of Commons of Canada,but he ultimately finished second against Liberal incumbent AndréOuellet. [7]
Venneri did not rejoin the MCM after the federal election,and he formally severed his ties with that party in November 1989 to join the newly formed Montreal Municipal Party (MMP). [8] He ran under the latter party's banner in the 1990 municipal election and was defeated by fellow incumbent Vittorio Capparelli,an MCM councillor whose previous ward had been eliminated by redistribution. [9]
The MMP fell victim to internal divisions after the 1990 election,and in 1992 the party leadership announced plans to merge with the Civic Party. The merger never formally took place,but many Municipal Party members later joined the Civic Party as individuals. Venneri was among these,serving as the CPM's vice-president in an unsuccessful attempt to relaunch the in during the buildup to the 1994 municipal election. [10] The CPM was unable to find a mayoral candidate,and in August 1994 Venneri helped merge the venerable organization into the newly formed Montrealers' Party. Venneri himself was the CPM's interim president and de facto leader in the final days of the party's existence. [11]
Venneri ran for the Montrealers' Party in the 1994 municipal election and finished third against Vittorio Capparelli,who had by this time joined the Vision Montreal (VM) party. The Montrealers' Party dissolved the following year,with Venneri remarking that its questionable financial strategies had doomed it from the start. [12]
Venneri was re-elected to Montreal city council as a Vision Montreal candidate in the 1998 election in a rematch against Capparelli,who had left Vision Montreal the previous year and rejoined the MCM. Vision Montreal won a council majority,and Venneri served for the next three years as a backbench supporter of Pierre Bourque's administration. He was re-elected in the 2001 election for the redistributed Jean-Rivard division;Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) won this election,and Venneri served with the official opposition.
In December 2003,Venneri and five other Vision Montreal councillors left Bourque's party to join MICU. This allowed Tremblay to consolidate his majority on council,and in January 2004 Venneri was named vice-chair of Montreal's finance committee. [13] He was re-elected as a MICU candidate in the 2005 election,again defeating Capparelli,who had by this time rejoined Vision Montreal. The Jean-Rivard electoral division was renamed as the François-Perrault division for this election,though it had different boundaries from the previous division of that name.
Venneri remained vice-chair of Montreal's finance committee after the election and also served on the city's committee on services to residents. [14] He was elected to a fifth term on council in the 2009 municipal election,for Tremblay's renamed Union Montreal party. He resigned from Union Montreal on November 14,2012,shortly after Tremblay resigned as mayor amid the backdrop of a serious corruption scandal. [15]
By virtue of holding his city council seat,he also serves on the Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension borough council.
| 2009 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault division | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Union Montreal | (x)Frank Venneri | 2,877 | 36.26 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Harry Delva | 2,556 | 32.22 | |||||
| Projet Montréal | Marie-Josée Beauchamp | 2,219 | 27.97 | |||||
| Independent | Guillaume Blouin-Beaudoin | 282 | 3.55 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 7,934 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 2009, City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 2005 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Island Citizens Union | Frank Venneri (incumbent) | 3,206 | 42.63 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Vittorio Capparelli | 2,966 | 39.44 | |||||
| Projet Montréal | Maria Marra | 1,348 | 17.93 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 7,520 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: City of Montreal official results (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 2001 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, Jean-Rivard | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Frank Venneri (incumbent) | 4,548 | 58.04 | |||||
| Montreal Island Citizens Union | Daniel Boucher | 2,968 | 37.88 | |||||
| White Elephant Party | Charles Paradis | 320 | 4.08 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 7,836 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1998 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Frank Venneri | 2,622 | 49.05 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | (x)Vittorio Capparelli | 1,277 | 23.89 | |||||
| New Montreal | Lanise Hayes | 780 | 14.59 | |||||
| Team Montreal | Yasmin Bautista | 420 | 7.86 | |||||
| Independent | Michel Handfield | 247 | 4.62 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,346 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Official Results, City of Montreal | ||||||||
| 1994 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Vittorio Capparelli | 2,277 | 48.16 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Lyse Brunet | 1,303 | 27.56 | |||||
| Montrealers' Party | Frank Venneri | 1,000 | 21.15 | |||||
| Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal | Mario Laquerre | 148 | 3.13 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 4,728 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Official Results, City of Montreal | ||||||||
| 1990 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Vittorio Capparelli (incumbent) | 1,757 | 43.66 | |||||
| Municipal Party | Frank Venneri (incumbent) | 1,142 | 28.38 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger | 1,125 | 27.96 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 4,024 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election : Papineau | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | André Ouellet | 18,122 | 45.99 | – | $43,413 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Frank Venneri | 13,094 | 33.23 | $39,468 | ||||
| New Democratic | Giovanni Adamo | 5,948 | 15.10 | $22,192 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Carole Ola Clermont | 987 | 2.51 | – | $0 | |||
| Green | H. Joseph Vega | 469 | 1.19 | – | $0 | |||
| Communist | Line Chabot | 235 | 0.60 | $18 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Francine Tremblay | 193 | 0.49 | $130 | ||||
| Revolutionary Workers League | Michel Dugré | 178 | 0.45 | $513 | ||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Normand Bélanger | 174 | 0.44 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 39,400 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 907 | |||||||
| Turnout | 40,307 | 70.14 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 57,470 | |||||||
| Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-fourth General Election, 1988. | ||||||||
| 1986 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Frank Venneri | 3,564 | 62.66 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Rocco Luccisano (incumbent) | 2,124 | 37.34 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,688 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
The Civic Party of Montreal was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It existed from 1960 to 1994. Throughout its history the Civic Party was dominated by the personality of its leader Jean Drapeau.
Louise Roy is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was a member of the Montreal city council from 1994 to 1998 and served as president of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) party. Since retiring from politics she has served in some managerial roles.
Ginette L'Heureux is an administrator and former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was a member of the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1994, serving as a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) party.
John Gardiner is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montreal city council from 1974 to 1978 and again from 1982 to 1994 as a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and was a prominent figure in Jean Doré's municipal administration.
The Parti municipal de Montréal (PMM) was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1987 to 1994.
Vittorio Capparelli is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1998 and was a member of the Montreal executive committee from 1994 to 1996.
George Savoidakis was a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1986, representing the Parc-Extension ward as a member of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal.
The Parti des Montréalais was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It existed from 1993 to 1995 and won two council seats in the 1994 municipal election.
Serge Bélanger is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montreal city council from 1975 to 1986 and served on the Montreal executive committee in the 1980s. Bélanger was a member of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal.
Action Montreal was a short-lived municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that existed from February to April 1994 under the leadership of entrepreneur Claude Beauchamp.
Fiorino Bianco is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1990 to 1994, initially as a member of mayor Jean Doré's Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and later for other parties.
Ivon Le Duc is a politician and entrepreneur in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1994 to 2005 and was a member of the Montreal executive committee in Pierre Bourque's administration from 1998 to 2001. Elected three times as a member of Bourque's Vision Montreal (VM) party, he later served with the Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) and as an independent.
Jacques Charbonneau is a former politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 2001, originally as a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and later as a member of Vision Montreal (VM).
Pasqaule Compierchio is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1990 to 1994.
Paolo V. Tamburello is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1994 to 2005 and was a member of the Montreal executive committee under Pierre Bourque.
The Coalition démocratique de Montréal was a left-of-centre municipal political party that existed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 1989 to 2001.
Germain Prégent was a politician and entrepreneur in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He represented the Saint-Henri neighbourhood on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 2001 and served on the Montreal executive committee during Pierre Bourque's administration.
Luc Larivée was a physician and politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He chaired the Montreal Catholic School Commission (MCSC) from 1976 to 1983 and served for many years on the Montreal City Council.
Claire St-Arnaud is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 1994 to 2009, representing the east-end division of Longue-Pointe. St-Arnaud was a member of Vision Montreal until resigning to sit as an independent in 2008.
Réal Charest is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1994 as a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM).