Chantal Rossi

Chantal Rossi
Associate councillor to the Montreal Executive Committee with responsibility for culture, heritage, and design
Incumbent
Assumed office
2013
Preceded by position created
Montreal City Councillor for Marie-Clarac
Incumbent
Assumed office
2013
Preceded by Clementina Teti-Tomassi
Montréal-Nord borough councillor for Marie-Clarac
In office
2009–2013
Preceded by Clementina Teti-Tomassi
Succeeded by Monica Ricourt
Member of the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île, District Sixteen
Incumbent
Assumed office
1998
Preceded by position created
Personal details
Political party Union Montreal (2009-2013)
Independent (2013)
Équipe Denis Coderre (2013–)

Chantal Rossi is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on the Montreal city council since November 2013 as a member of Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. She was previously a borough councillor in Montréal-Nord from 2005 to 2009 and has served on the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île since 1998.

Early life and career

Rossi was born in Montréal-Nord.[1] She is the daughter of Carlo Rossi, who represented Bourassa in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988. In 1987, she helped convinced her father to reverse his long-standing support for capital punishment and to vote against its re-introduction.[2]

Rossi is a trained mezzo-soprano singer and has performed concerts in Montreal.[3]

School commissioner

Rossi was first elected to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île in 1998 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007.

Borough councillor

Rossi was elected to the Montréal-Nord borough council in the 2009 Montreal municipal election as a Union Montreal candidate in Marie-Clarac. She served for a full four-year term. On council, she had special responsibility for culture and preparations for Montréal-Nord's centenary in 2015.[4]

Rossi resigned from Union Montreal to sit as an independent on February 21, 2013, after a corruption scandal implicated some of the party's leading members.[5] She joined Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal on June 17.[6]

City councillor

Rossi was elected to Montreal city council for Marie-Clarac in the 2013 municipal election. Denis Coderre was elected as mayor of Montreal in this election, and his party won a plurality of seats on council.

On November 18, 2013, Coderre appointed Rossi as an associate councillor to the Montreal executive committee with responsibility for culture, heritage, and design. She works in conjunction with Manon Gauthier, the executive councillor responsible for these files.[7]

Rossi continues to serve on the Montréal-Nord borough council by virtue of holding her position on city council.

Electoral record

Municipal
Montreal municipal election, 2013: Councillor, Marie-Clarac
Party Candidate Votes%∆%
Équipe Denis CoderreChantal Rossi 6,292 63.29
Coalition MontréalMichelle Allaire 2,123 21.36
Projet MontréalAndrea Cohen 1,526 15.35
Total valid votes 9,941100–
Total rejected ballots 7316.85–
Turnout 10,67238.96
Electors on the lists 27,391––
Source: Election results, 2013, City of Montreal.
Montreal municipal election, 2009: Montréal-Nord borough Councillor, Marie-Clarac
Party Candidate Votes%∆%
Union MontrealChantal Rossi 3,506 38.96
Vision MontrealRoland Carrier 2,824 31.38
Renouveau municipal de MontréalJeannette Belisle 1,413 15.70
Projet MontréalSaïd Ghoulim 1,256 13.96
Total valid votes 8,999100–
Total rejected ballots 5075.33–
Turnout 9,50634.19–
Electors on the lists 27,807––
Source: Election results, 2009, City of Montreal.
School board
Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île election, 2007: Trustee, District Sixteen
Party Candidate Votes%
-Chantal Rossi (incumbent) 285 64.63
-Réjean Loyer 156 35.37
Total valid votes 441100
Sources: Élections scolaires 2007: Liste des candidates et candidats élus, Éducation, Loisir et Sport Québec; Audrey Gagnon, "CSPÎ: Élection scolaire sans surprise à Saint-Léonard, Montréal-Nord et Rivière-des-Prairies", L'Informateur de Rivière-des-Prairies, 5 November 2007.
Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île election, 2003: Trustee, District Sixteen
Party Candidate Votes%
-Chantal Rossi acclaimed
Source: "School board races won by acclamation," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 2003, p. 6.
Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île election, 1998: Trustee, District Sixteen
Party Candidate Votes%
-Chantal Rossi 390 41.94
-Isabelle Laurin 290 31.18
-Louise Dagenais 250 26.88
Total valid votes 930100
Source: Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-L'Île — 06-01 (Election Results, 1998), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

References

  1. ↑ Chantal Rossi (2013 campaign page), Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal, accessed 5 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Caitlin Kelly, "Tough turnabout; Changing his mind on death penalty reveals humanity of cop-turned-MP," Montreal Gazette, 2 May 1987, B6.
  3. ↑ "Music Scene: This week's selection of aural happenings," Montreal Gazette, 22 July 2005, D13; Concert de Noël de la conseillère Chantal Rossi, Courrier Ahuntsic & Bordeaux-Cartierville, 13 November 2013, accessed 5 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Chantal Rossi (2013 campaign page), Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal, accessed 5 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Ron Bruemmer, "Union Montreal loses six more members; Party heavyweight Michel Bissonnet 'in period of reflection' about future," Montreal Gazette, 22 February 2013, A4.
  6. ↑ Adam Kovac, "Eight candidates join Coderre slate; Seven come from Union Montreal; Previous council experience heralded," Montreal Gazette, 18 June 2013, A8.
  7. ↑ Coderre names executive committee, CTV News, 19 November 2013, accessed 5 December 2013.

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