Richer Dompierre | |
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Montreal City Councillor for Louis-Riel ward | |
In office 2005–2009 |
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Preceded by | Lyn Thériault |
Succeeded by | Lyn Thériault |
Montreal City Councillor for Maisonneuve ward | |
In office 1998–2005 |
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Preceded by | Nathalie Malépart |
Succeeded by | position abolished |
Richer Dompierre (born July 28, 1957) is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1998 to 2009, initially as a member of Vision Montreal (VM) and later for the rival Union Montreal (UM).
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Dompierre was born in Montreal and has worked in the printing sector since 1979. As of 2011, is the publisher of "Qui est qui du Québec" (English: "Who's who in Quebec").[1]
Dompierre was first elected to the Montreal city council in 1998 as a Vision Montreal candidate in the east-end division of Maisonneuve. VM won a landslide majority in this election under Pierre Bourque's leadership; after the election, Bourque appointed Dompierre as an associate member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) with responsibility for economic development.[2] In the 2001 municipal election, Dompierre promised that Bourque's administration would provide special renovation incentives for Ste. Catherine Street businesses in his ward.[3]
Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) defeated Vision Montreal in the 2001 election. Dompierre was re-elected in Maisonneuve and served as a member of the official opposition; he also became a member of the newly created Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough council. In 2003, he filed a police complaint alleging that fellow Vision Montreal councillor Ivon Le Duc attacked him during a heated borough council debate over the removal of a Jean-Paul Riopelle sculpture.[4] The chief crown prosecutor confirmed there was enough evidence to charge Le Duc with assault, but ultimately no charges were laid and Le Duc instead took part in a program that allowed for the non-judicial treatment of certain infractions.[5]
Dompierre was narrowly re-elected over fellow councillor Nicolas Tétrault in the 2005 municipal election; the electoral office initially showed Tétrault elected by twelve votes, but a more thorough scrutiny confirmed Dompierre as the winner.[6] The following year, he was the only VM councillor to support an unsuccessful plan to rename Montreal's Park Avenue and Bleury Street area after former Quebec premier Robert Bourassa.[7] He left Vision Montreal to join Tremblay's party (by this time renamed as Union Montreal) in June 2008. In the 2009 municipal election, he was defeated by VM candidate Lyn Thériault.[8]
Dompierre ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2003 Quebec provincial election in the east-end Montreal division of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. He finished second against Parti Québécois incumbent Louise Harel.
2009 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Louis-Riel division | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Election results, 2009, City of Montreal. |
2005 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Louis-Riel division | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. |
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Maisonneuve division | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. |
1998 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Maisonneuve division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2003 Quebec provincial election results: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. |