Pierre Lapointe (died April 12, 2008) was a municipal politician in

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. He served on the Montreal city council from 1998 until his death, originally as a member of

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(VM) and later with the Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). Lapointe was the brother of provincial politician

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and the brother-in-law of her husband,

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, who served as

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from 1994 to 1996.

Political career

Lapointe was first elected to city council in the 1998 municipal election for the Fleury division. Vision Montreal won a council majority in this cycle, and Lapointe was a backbench supporter of

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Pierre Bourque's administration for the next three years. He was re-elected for the redistributed Ahuntsic division in the 2001 election; Vision Montreal was defeated by MICU, and he subsequently served as a member of the opposition. Lapointe

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to join MICU on December 12, 2003. In February 2004, he was elected to MICU's executive committee as one of three members representing the elected party caucus. He was re-elected under his new party's banner in the 2005 campaign. By virtue of holding his seat on city council, Lapointe also served as a member of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough council following the 2001 election. He died of

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on April 12, 2008.Martine Frégeau, "Ahuntsic-Cartierville honorera la mémoire de Pierre Lapointe"
''Courier Ahuntsic/Bordeaux-Cartierville'', 15 April 2008, accessed 5 February 2013
André Duchesne, "Les grands disparus de 2008"
''La Presse'', 22 December 2008, accessed 5 February 2013.

Electoral record

References

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