The Honourable Lucie Moncion | |
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Senator from Ontario | |
Assumed office November 10, 2016 | |
Nominated by | Justin Trudeau |
Appointed by | David Johnston |
Personal details | |
Born | October 25,1958 |
Political party | Independent Senators Group |
Lucie Moncion (born October 25,1958) is a Canadian banker,who was appointed to the Senate of Canada on October 30,2016. [1] She sits in the Senate as an independent,representing the province of Ontario. [1]
Prior to her appointment,Moncion was president and chief executive officer of the Alliance des caisses populaires de l’Ontario,a network of 12 caisses populaires serving Northern Ontario,and served on the boards of Nipissing University,Collège Boréal and Direction Ontario. [1]
Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy Desjardins and her husband Alphonse Desjardins were co-founders of the Caisses populaires Desjardins,a forerunner of North American credit unions. She was appointed honorary member of the Union régionale des caisses populaires Desjardins de Québec in 1923.
The Desjardins Group is a Canadian financial services cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions in North America. It was founded in 1900 in Lévis,Quebec by Alphonse Desjardins. While its legal headquarters remains in Lévis,most of the executive management,including the CEO,is based in Montreal.
Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins,born in Lévis,Quebec,was the co-founder of the Caisses Populaires Desjardins,a forerunner of North American credit unions and community banks. For his contribution to the advancement of agriculture in the province of Quebec,he was posthumously inducted to the Agricultural Hall of Fame of Quebec in 1994.
Gwenneth (Gwen) M. Boniface is a Canadian politician who serves as a senator from Ontario since November 10,2016,sitting as a member of the Independent Senators Group (ISG). A former lawyer and police officer,she was the commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from 1998 to 2006. Boniface was appointed to the Senate was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on October 31,2016. Boniface is the first woman to serve as OPP commissioner.
Caisse populaire acadienne ltée,operating as UNI Financial Cooperation,is a Francophone credit union based in New Brunswick,Canada whose members are primarily Acadians. UNI's administrative headquarters are in Caraquet on the Acadian Peninsula.
The Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario is a Canadian political organization of municipalities in the province of Ontario which have significant Franco-Ontarian communities. The organization oversees the maintenance and development of municipal government services in French,and works with other levels of government,as well as organizations in other Canadian provinces,on issues unique to francophone and bilingual communities.
Groupe Banque Populaire was a French group of cooperative banks. The central entity was controlled by 15 independent regional banks and also operated under the CASDEN and the Crédit Coopératif subsidiaries.
Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire and IXIS.
Groupe Caisse d'épargne was a French cooperative banking group,with around,4700 branches in the country. Its origins go back to the founding in 1818 of the Caisse d'Épargne et de Prévoyance de Paris,France's first savings bank. The group was active in retail and private banking,as well as holding a significant stake in the publicly traded investment bank Natixis. In 2009,it merged with Groupe Banque Populaire to form Groupe BPCE.
The Ontario Co-operative Association is a co-operative association serving co-operatives and co-op member organizations in Ontario,Canada. It is one of nine Anglophone provincial cooperative associations across Canada and collaborates with the Conseil de la coopération de l'Ontario (CCO),its Francophone counterpart in Ontario.
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario is a self-funding Crown agency which acts as the financial regulator for the province of Ontario,Canada. Established in 2016,FSRA officially succeeded its predecessor agencies –the Financial Services Commission of Ontario and the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario –on June 8,2019. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario operates at arms-length from the Government of Ontario,and reports to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario through the Minister of Finance.
Anthony "Tony" Alexander Dean,is a Canadian senator and former Ontario civil servant. He was secretary of the Cabinet,head of the Ontario Public Service,and the clerk of the Executive Council from 2002 to 2008.
Cyrille Vaillancourt was a journalist,civil servant,businessman and political figure in Quebec. Vaillancourt played an important role in the development of the caisses populaires in Quebec. He represented La Durantaye division in the Legislative Council of Quebec from 1943 to 1944 and sat for Kennebec division in the Senate of Canada from 1944 to 1969 as a Liberal.
Groupe BPCE is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups,Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021,it was France's fourth largest bank,the seventh largest in Europe,and the nineteenth in the world by total assets. It has more than 8,200 branches nationwide under their respective brand names serving nearly 70 million customers. It is considered a global systemically important bank (G-SIB) by the Financial Stability Board.
Canada has significant per-capita membership in credit unions,representing more than a third of the working-age population. Credit union membership is largest in Quebec,where they are known as caisses populaires,and in western Canada.
Howard I. Wetston,is a former Canadian Senator and retired public servant and lawyer who was formerly the Chairperson of the Ontario Securities Commission from 2010 to 2015. Prior to the OSC,Wetson was the chair and CEO of the Ontario Energy Board and various other public organizations.
Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah is a member of the Canadian Senate. He is a former vice chairman and chief operating officer of Scotiabank,retiring in 2014 after 35 years with the bank where he began his career as a financial analyst. He has served on the boards of the C.D. Howe Institute,the Toronto International Film Festival,Torstar Corporation,Cineplex Inc.,George Weston Ltd.,Telus Corp. and the Hospital for Sick Children. He is also a founding member of the Sikh Foundation of Canada.
Saint-Eugène is a rural,Franco-Ontarian locality situated in the Township of East Hawkesbury in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell in Ontario (Canada). It is on the interprovincial border with Quebec,near Highway 417 between Ottawa and Montreal.
The Desjardins Ontario Credit Union was formed 1 January 2020 with the merger of 11 Ontario Desjardins-affiliated credit unions,along with its federation,into one credit union insured by the FRSAO. The credit union has 50 branches and 130,000 members. Billy Boucher is the credit union's first CEO.