Jacqueline Montpetit

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Jacqueline Montpetit is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2009 and was borough mayor of Le Sud-Ouest. Montpetit has also served as a school commissioner.

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Early life and career

Montpetit has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the Université Laval. She worked at the Carrefour d'éducation populaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles from 1971 to 1974 and, after raising a family, oversaw the same organization from 1987 to 1990. [1]

School commissioner

Montpetit was elected to the Montreal Catholic School Commission in 1994 as a candidate of the secular and progressive Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte (MÉMO). [2] Although MÉMO won more seats than any other party in this election, they fell short of a majority, and the governing Regroupement scolaire confessionnel (RSC) was able to remain in office with support from a smaller party. Montpetit served for the next four years as a member of the opposition.

Quebec's denominational school boards were replaced in 1998 by boards centered on language, and Montpetit was elected to the new Commission scolaire de Montréal in the elections of June 1998. MÉMO won a majority of commission seats in this election and was able to form a new administration, although it subsequently lost its majority when some of its elected members left the party to serve as independents. [3] Montpetit, who remained with MÉMO, continued to serve as a commissioner after her election to city council. [4]

Throughout her time as a school commissioner, Montpetit was involved in efforts to provide a proper schoolyard space for the École Charles-Lemoyne, in her division. [5] She did not seek re-election in 2003.

City councillor and borough mayor

Montpetit was elected to the Montreal city council in the 1998 municipal election as a Vision Montreal candidate in Point-Saint-Charles. Vision Montreal lost this election to Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU), and Montpetit initially served as an opposition member.

By virtue of her position on city council, Montpetit also served on the local Sud-Ouest borough council. She was chosen as its chair following the 2001 election, becoming one of the few Vision Montreal councillors in this time to chair a borough council. [6] All borough council chairs in Montreal were re-designated as "borough mayors" in 2004.

In 2002, Montpetit argued that the Tremblay administration was underfunding Montreal's older communities relative to newly amalgamated suburban wards, adding that her area was having difficulty paying for essential maintenance. [7]

During her first term as borough mayor, Montpetit approved funding for an avant-garde sculpture in Marguerite Bourgeoys Park, commemorating the arrival of Marguerite Bourgeoys in Montreal in 1653. After some local residents indicated their disapproval of the statue, Montpetit noted, "There is always a shock with modern art but if people take the time to appreciate it they will come to see this is good." [8]

By 2004, Montpetit and fellow Vision Montreal city councillor Robert Bousquet were often engaging in heated battles at the borough council level. [9] Montpetit left Vision Montreal to join MICU in June 2005, [10] and she was narrowly re-elected as borough mayor in the 2005 municipal election over Bousquet, who ran as Vision's candidate. Early reports actually showed Bousquet elected by seventy-five votes, but the final returns after a recount showed Montpetit elected by thirty-eight. [11] The candidates ran on similar platforms: both promoted more social housing and condominium development for the region. [12] As a borough mayor, Montpetit also continued to serve on city council.

Montpetit helped oversee two real estate development projects in the Griffintown neighbourhood during her second term, although these projects had run into difficulties by 2009. [13] She also helped facilitate a revitalization project for the Lachine Canal, [14] and in September 2009 she announced plans to rename Campbell-Centre Park in the Little Burgundy neighbourhood after jazz legend Oscar Peterson, who had grown up in the area. [15] She opposed a plan to permit frontal terraces on bars and restaurants along Monk Boulevard. [16]

Montpetit did not seek re-election in 2009. [17]

Electoral record

City councillor

2005 Montreal municipal election results: Mayor, Borough of Le Sud-Ouest
PartyCandidateVotes%
Montreal Island Citizens Union Jacqueline Montpetit
(incumbent)		5,93940.40
Vision Montreal Robert Bousquet5,90140.14
Projet Montréal Pierre M. Valiquette1,56510.64
ÉV-MDaniel Tremblay1,0417.08
IndependentGlenmore Browne2561.74
Total votes14,702 100
Source City of Montreal official results (in French), City of Montreal.

School trustee

1998 Commission scolaire de Montréal election: Trustee, District Nineteen
PartyCandidateVotes%
Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte Jacqueline Montpetit1,15664.26
Regroupement scolaire confessionnel Mario Langlois64335.74
Total votes1,799 100
Source Commission scolaire de Montréal — 06-02 (Election Results, 1998), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
1994 Montreal Catholic School Commission election: Trustee, District Two
PartyCandidateVotes%
Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte Jacqueline Montpetitelected
Source "List of winners in Montreal Island board elections," Montreal Gazette, 21 November 1994, A6.

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References

  1. ↑ Jacqueline Montpetit, Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte biography, accessed 5 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "List of winners in Montreal Island board elections," Montreal Gazette, 21 November 1994, A6.
  3. ↑ Ingrid Peritz, "MEMO takes control of Montreal's French board," Montreal Gazette, 15 June 1998, A5.
  4. ↑ Marc Thibodeau, "Le RSC espère forcer la destitution de Diane De Courcy", La Presse, 1 November 2001, accessed on MÉMO website, 5 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Andy Riga, "Schoolyard looks like prison yard; No ball games, no skipping rope in tight confines," Montreal Gazette, 12 September 1995, A1; Allison Lampert, "Room to play around at school: Community's six-year fight pays off for Point St. Charles students," Montreal Gazette, 9 June 2001, A3.
  6. ↑ Linda Gyulai, "Streets more dangerous," Montreal Gazette, 4 March 2003, A1.
  7. ↑ Linda Gyulai, "Boroughs feel growing pains: We're being muzzled, watchdogs insist," Montreal Gazette, 30 December 2002, A1.
  8. ↑ Anne Sutherland, "Sculpture has residents in a knot," Montreal Gazette, 20 June 2005, A6.
  9. ↑ Linda Gyulai, "Switching parties? Tamburello won't say," Montreal Gazette, 22 December 2004, A6.
  10. ↑ James Mennie, "Hot spot reputation on the line," Montreal Gazette, 18 June 2005, A6; Linda Gyulai, "Tremblay pokes fun at Bourque," Montreal Gazette, 29 August 2005, A7.
  11. ↑ Sue Montgomery, "Photo finishes in several races," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 2005, A4; Henry Aubin, "Report on municipal vote is a whitewash: on vote counting" [editorial], Montreal Gazette, 17 January 2006, A19.
  12. ↑ Alex Dobrota, "Business owners 'let down' by revitalization efforts," Montreal Gazette, 19 October 2005, A6.
  13. ↑ "Second Griffintown project unveiled; Along Lachine Canal," Montreal Gazette, 13 November 2008, A3; Jason Magder, "Griffintown consultations open to everyone, borough promises; Residents still wary about planning process," Montreal Gazette, 6 February 2008, A7; Jason Magder, "Griffintown project still alive," Montreal Gazette, 4 February 2009, A3.
  14. ↑ "Approval of Major Montreal Real Estate Development Officially Received," Canada NewsWire, 4 September 2009.
  15. ↑ Catherine Solyom, "Little Burgundy celebrates a jazz legend; Oscar Peterson Park inaugurated," Montreal Gazette, 13 September 2009, A3.
  16. ↑ Noah Sidel, "A shot in the arm or a waste of taxpayer money?; Justify your existence," Montreal Gazette, 14 July 2007, B2.
  17. ↑ André Desroches, "La mairesse Jacqueline Montpetit quitte la vie politique", La Voix Pop, 18 August 2009, accessed 5 May 2009.
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