Lise Landry is a local politician in

Shawinigan Shawinigan () is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,349 as of the 2016 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) an ...

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, Canada. She was the 19th Mayor of the city from 1994 to 2009.

Family and life prior to elective office

She is married. Her husband's name is Henri. Her son Yves has been the Member for the District des Terrasses on the

Trois-Rivières City Council The Trois-Rivières City Council (in French: ''Conseil municipal de Trois-Rivières'') is the governing body for the mayor–council government in the city of Trois-Rivières, in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Mayor * Yves Lévesque (2001� ...

. Prior to her election, she was political assistant to

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MNA

Yvon Lemire Yvon Lemire was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. He was born in 1939 in Baie-de-Shawinigan, Mauricie. Provincial Politics He ran as the Liberal candidate in the district of Saint-Ma ...

Mayor of Shawinigan

Landry successfully ran as Mayor of Shawinigan in 1994 and became the first woman to serve in that function. She was re-elected in 1998 (without opposition), in 2001 (against Grand-Mère Mayor Linda Lafrenière) and in 2005.

Legacy

During her administration,

La Cité de l'Énergie La Cite de l'Énergie (French for ''the city of energy'') is a theme park based on local industrial history and located in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. Facilities *A science centre, which includes a high observation tower and features a multimedi ...

, a theme park based on local industrial history with a

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, was established. A number of sections of town were revitalized, including Willow Avenue and Lévis Avenue, where traffic was re-arranged into a circle and an ornamental fountain was erected. The area near the intersection of Royal Boulevard and Trudel Street was re-developed into a business district that includes large department stores such as

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. Several public parks changed names to honor local historical figures and celebrations were held to commemorate the city's centennial. Her leadership is often credited with easing out the controversial provincial government-ordered

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of Shawinigan with much of the MRC Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie.

Growing opposition and retirement

A number of initiatives proposed by Lise Landry were met with more criticism. The most notable example is the construction and completion of the

Centre Bionest de Shawinigan The Centre Gervais Auto is a 4,125-seat multi-purpose arena in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada that opened on December 27, 2008 and has been the home of the Shawinigan Cataractes since 2008. When the Shawinigan Cataractes played their first-ever game ...

. The final price tag of the facility will be higher than expected. This proposal as well as Landry's own management style made it more challenging in recent years to govern by consensus with the members of the city council and with other civic leaders. Opposition to her re-election emerged and she announced that she would not run for another term of office in 2009.

Life after retirement

Landry hinted that she will support city councilor and

candidate France Beaulieu in the district of

Saint-Maurice—Champlain Saint-Maurice–Champlain is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. It consists of: * the City of Shawinigan; * the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Saint-M ...

in the next federal election. She also endorsed successful candidate

Michel Angers Michel Angers is a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He is the current Mayor of the city, having won the 2009 municipal election. Background He was born on November 2, 1959 and is from the Grand-Mère section of town. Angers has worked ...

for mayor in 2009. Lise Landry se range derrière Angers
Guy Veillette, Le Nouvelliste, October 30, 2009

Footnotes

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