Jean-Marc Gibeau is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montréal-Nord city council from 1996 to 2001 and on the

Montreal city council The Montreal City Council (french: Conseil municipal de Montréal) is the governing body in the mayor–council government in the city of Montreal, Quebec. The head of the city government in Montreal is the mayor, who is first among equals in the ...

from 2002 to 2017.

Early life and private career

Gibeau has a college diploma from the ''

Cégep Marie-Victorin The Cégep Marie-Victorin is a French public college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 7000 rue Marie-Victorin in the borough of Montréal-Nord. Cégep A CEGEP ( or ; ), also written cégep, CÉGEP and cegep, is a publicly ...

'' in arts and letters (1976) and a diploma of the ''Association des courtiers d'assurances de la province de Québec'' (English: Insurance Brokers' Association of the Province of Quebec) from the ''

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'' (1978). He has been employed with ''Les Assurances Gibeau Inc.'' since 1978 and has been its president since 1990. He currently serves on the board of governors of the '' École nationale de police du Québec''.

Montréal-Nord city councillor

Gibeau was elected to the Montréal-Nord city council in a 1996 by-election, succeeding his father Réal Gibeau. He was re-elected in the 1998 municipal election.

Montreal city councillor

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, including Montréal-Nord, were amalgamated into a single city on January 1, 2002. Gibeau was elected to the Montreal city council as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's

Montreal Island Citizens Union Union Montreal (french: Union Montréal) is an inactive municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the governing party in the city from 2001, when it won its first election under mayor Gérald Tremblay, until 2012. The party rem ...

(MICU) in the anticipatory

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, winning one of three seats in the Montréal-Nord borough. Tremblay won the mayoral election, MICU won a majority of seats on council, and Gibeau served on council as a supporter of Tremblay's administration. He was re-elected in

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and

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, on the latter occasion for Tremblay's renamed

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party. Gibeau resigned from Union Montreal on May 3, 2013, after serious allegations of corruption were made about the party at the Charbonneau Commission. The following month, he joined

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. He was

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's co-listed candidate in the 2013 election and continued to serve on council when the Coderre/Gibeau ticket was elected in Gibeau's ward and Coderre was simultaneously elected as mayor. Gibeau was appointed as president of the Équipe Denis Coderre caucus following the election. He was also appointed as an associate member of the

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(i.e., the municipal

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) with responsibility for resident services and worked in conjunction with

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, the councillor responsible for the file. By virtue of holding his seat on city council, Gibeau was automatically a member of the

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from 2002 to 2017. He also served as one of the two members of the Ville-Marie borough council directly appointed by the mayor of Montreal from 2013 to 2017."Montreal’s new executive council unveiled on Monday"
''Global News'', 18 November 2013, accessed 8 September 2017
Ville-Marie borough council (Coordonnées des élus)
City of Montreal, accessed 8 September 2017.

Electoral record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibeau, Jean-Marc Living people Montreal city councillors People from Montréal-Nord Year of birth missing (living people) Cégep Marie-Victorin alumni Collège de Maisonneuve alumni French Quebecers