Jean Doré

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Jean Doré (born December 12, 1944) is a Canadian politician and former mayor of the city of Montreal, Quebec. He was first elected in 1986, and served until 1994. Prior to his mayoral tenure, Dore worked as a lawyer and as a municipal politician.

Doré studied law at the University of Montreal, where he was president of the student union from 1967 to 1968. From 1972 to 1975 Mr. Doré was director of the Fédération des associations d'économie familiale.

In the early seventies Doré became a founding member of the Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM), where he started as treasurer and eventually became party leader. In 1986, he succeeded Jean Drapeau as mayor of Montreal, winning a second term in 1990. As mayor, he oversaw the renewal of the Old Port and the parks and beaches of Ile Ste-Hélène. He also inaugurated Berri Square (Place Émilie-Gamelin), Place Charles de Gaulle and the archaeology museum at Pointe à Caillière. However, he was also criticized for an ineffective style of government, including lax policies toward city employees, as well as an unwillingness to pay down the massive debt left by the projects of former mayor Jean Drapeau.

In 1994 Doré was defeated by Pierre Bourque, and again when he ran for re-election in 1998. He currently works as an executive for Desjardins.