Gérard Niding

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Gérard Niding was a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

City Councillor

He was elected to Montreal's City Council in 1954 as a Civic Action League candidate in the district of Papineau. He was defeated in 1957 and joined the Civic Party of Montreal in 1960. He was re-elected in that year, as well as in 1962 and 1966.

The Civic Action League was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It existed from 1951 to 1961.

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.

Chairman of the Executive Council

He succeeded Lucien Saulnier as Chairman of Montreal's Executive Committee as served from 1970 to 1978. He was re-elected to the Council in 1970 and 1974, but did not run for re-election in 1978. He was succeeded by colleagueYvon Lamarre as Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Lucien Saulnier, was a Canadian politician. He was chair of the Montreal Urban Community during the October Crisis. He was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Société de développement industriel du Québec.

Yvon Lamarre was a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

Role in Montreal Olympic Cost Overrun Scandal

He will be most remembered for his role in the fallout from the construction of the Olympic statdium in Montreal. An inquiry, headed by Justice Albert Malouf, led to the filing of corruption charges against Gérard Niding, who was chairman of Montreal's executive committee.

Niding pleaded guilty to breach of trust and accepting a bribe for passing untendered Olympic construction contracts to engineer Régis Trudeau, who built a house for Niding in Bromont in exchange. Trudeau was convicted of breach of trust.

Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by Lucien Saulnier (Civic Party)	Chairman of the Executive Committee 1970-1978	Succeeded by Yvon Lamarre (Civic Party)

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