Hubert Meilleur

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Hubert Meilleur is a politician from Quebec, Canada and is the Mayor of Mirabel.

He was first elected as Mayor in 1987 and was re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. Under his tenure, Mirabel's population increased, going from 15,000 to 34,000. ^[1] ^[2]

Meilleur is married to Ritha Cossette.

He and is wife each served as President of the ADQ.

Meilleur ran for a seat at the National Assembly in 1994 in the district of Argenteuil. He finished third with 18% of the vote. Liberal candidate Régent Beaudet won the election with 43% of the vote.

Meilleur ran again in 2003 in the new district of Mirabel. He finished second with 34% of the vote. PQ candidate Denise Beaudoin won with 38%.

Around 2004, the couple formed by Meilleur and Cossette left the ADQ and joined the Liberals.

2007, Cossette ran in the district of Mirabel, but finished a distant third with only 16% of the vote. ADQ candidate François Desrochers won the election with 44% of the vote. Beaudoin, who was running for re-election, received 34% of the vote.

Following the election, Meilleur and Cossette expressed disappointment over the fact that the Liberals lost their majority in the legislature and claimed that they had made the decision to stay out of provincial politics. ^[3] ^[4]

Meilleur opposes the decision, announced in December 2006 by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to return 4,450 hectares of farmland expropriated in 1969 to build Mirabel airport. ^[5]