Montréal-Nord Borough Council
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The Montréal-Nord borough council is the local governing body of
Montréal-Nord Montreal North (french: Montréal-Nord) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of Montréal-Nord on Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. It was amalgamated into t ...
, a borough in the
City of Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pea ...
. The council consists of five members: the borough mayor (who also serves as a Montreal city councillor), two city councillors representing the borough's electoral districts, and two borough councillors representing the same electoral districts. Montréal-Nord is former Montreal mayor
Denis Coderre Denis Coderre (born July 25, 1963) is a Canadian politician from Quebec. Coderre was the member of Parliament for the riding of Bourassa from 1997 until 2013, and was the Immigration minister from 2002 to 2003 and became the mayor of Mont ...
's home territory, and his
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party is the dominant party in the borough.


Current members

;Former members *Monica Ricourt was born in
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in 1978 and moved to Canada with her family at a young age. She has a
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degree in Political Science from the
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(2001). Ricourt was a member of the borough council from 2009 to 2017; she also served in the board of ''
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'' from 2009 to 2013. Originally elected for
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, she left this party in May 2013 and joined Coderre's party in June of the same year.


References

Municipal government of Montreal Montréal-Nord {{Quebec-stub