Claude Dauphin (politician)

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Claude Dauphin

Borough mayor for Lachine and Montreal City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2005
Chairman of the City of Montreal Executive Committee
In office 2008–2009
Preceded by	Frank Zampino
Succeeded by	Gérald Tremblay
MNA for Marquette
In office 1981–1994
Preceded by	First member
Succeeded by	François Ouimet
Personal details
Born	(1953-12-17) December 17, 1953
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party (provincial) Union Montréal (2001-2013) Independent (2013-)
Residence	Montreal, Quebec
Occupation	Lawyer

Claude Dauphin (born December 17, 1953 in Lachine, Quebec) is a lawyer and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He is a Montreal city councillor and also serves as the mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine. He was also elected to the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Marquette in the Montreal region from 1981 to 1994 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Background

Dauphin went to Université Laval and obtained a bachelor's degree in law and also attended the University of British Columbia before being admitted to the Barreau du Quebec. He was active as a lawyer from 1979 to 1981.

Member of the Provincial Legislature

Dauphin entered provincial politics in the 1981 election. He was elected in Marquette and re-elected for two other terms in 1985 and 1989. He was not part of the Robert Bourassa or Daniel Johnson Jr. cabinets from 1985 to 1994 but was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Security and the Justice Minister. He did not seek a fourth in the 1994 elections when the Liberal lost to the Parti Québécois. He was succeeded in Marquette by François Ouimet. He later worked in the office of former Canadian Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin.

Federal politics

Dauphin is a past honorary president of Option Canada. He was criticized in a report surrounding the Grenier Commission which investigated actions by the No Committee during the 1995 referendum.

Montreal City Politics

Dauphin is a past president of the Montreal Transit Corporation.

Dauphin was elected mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine in the 2005 municipal elections. He was also a councillor for Lachine between 2002 and 2005.

He now sits on the Executive Committee of the Montreal municipal council with the rank of vice-president and responsibility for public security. In 2008, he was named by Mayor Gerald Tremblay, as the new Chairperson of the City of Montreal's Executive Committee, replacing Frank Zampino.^[1]^[2]

Dauphin was speaker of the Montreal City Council until April 2011 when he stepped down.^[3]

Dauphin was elected president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in June 2013.^[4]

In July 2013, Claude Dauphin launched his own borough-level political party for the November 2013 election, the Équipe Dauphin Lachine party.^[5]

Footnotes

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
Société de transport de Montréal, Photo of Claude Dauphin

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Mayor	Coderre

Councillors	Barbe Beis Benjamin Bergeron Bissonet Boivin Roy Caldwell Celzi Chitilian Cinq-Mars Clément-Talbot Cloutier Copeman Croteau Dauphin Décarie Deguire Deros Deschamps DeSousa Desrochers Dorais Downey Duchesne Ferrandez Gadoury Gagnier Gauthier Gibeau Guay Hénault Lavigne Lalonde Lavoie Lefebvre Limoges Mainville Marinacci McIntyre McQueen Ménard Miele Miranda Moschella Norris Ouellet Pagé Parenteau Perez Perri Plante Popeanu Rapanà Rossi Rotrand Rouleau Ryan Salem Samson Sauvé Searle Shanahan Sigouin Thuillier Vallée

Persondata
Name	Dauphin, Claude
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	December 17, 1953
Place of birth
Date of death
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