Richer Dompierre (born July 28, 1957) is a politician in

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. He served on the

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from 1998 to 2009, initially as a member of

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(VM) and later for the rival

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(UM).

Early life and private career

Born in Montreal, Dompierre has worked in the printing sector in 1979. In 2010–11, he was the publisher of ''"Qui est qui du Québec"'' (English: "Who's who in Quebec").

Councillor

Dompierre was first elected to the Montreal city council in

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as a Vision Montreal candidate in the east-end division of Maisonneuve. VM won a landslide majority in this election under Pierre Bourque's leadership; after the election, Bourque appointed Dompierre as an associate member of the

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(i.e., the municipal cabinet) with responsibility for economic development.

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(MICU) defeated Vision Montreal in the 2001 municipal election. Dompierre was re-elected in Maisonneuve and served as a member of the

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; he also became a member of the newly created

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. In 2003, he filed a police complaint alleging that fellow Vision Montreal councillor

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had attacked him during a heated borough council debate over a proposed move of the

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''. The chief crown prosecutor confirmed there was enough evidence to charge Le Duc with assault, but ultimately no charges were laid. Le Duc instead took part in a program that allowed for the non-judicial treatment of certain infractions. Dompierre ran for the redistributed Louis-Riel division in the 2005 municipal election and was narrowly re-elected over fellow councillor Nicolas Tétrault. The electoral office initially showed Tétrault elected by twelve votes, but a more thorough scrutiny confirmed Dompierre as the winner. The following year, Dompierre was the only VM councillor to support an unsuccessful plan to rename Montreal's Park Avenue and Bleury Street area after former Quebec premier

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. He left Vision Montreal to join Tremblay's party (by this time renamed as Union Montreal) in June 2008. In the 2009 municipal election, he was defeated by VM candidate

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.Linda Gyulai, "Experts are divided on benefits to Montreal; Historic moment or contradiction?", ''Montreal Gazette'', 17 March 2008, A3.

Provincial politics

Dompierre ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2003 Quebec provincial election in the east-end Montreal division of

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. He finished second against

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incumbent

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Electoral record

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dompierre, Richer Living people Montreal city councillors 1957 births