Yvette Bissonnet is a politician in

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. She was a member of the

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from 2001 to 2009, serving as a member of the

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(MICU; renamed

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in 2007). She had previously served on the Saint-Leonard council before that city's amalgamation into Montreal. Bissonnet is married to

Michel Bissonnet Michel Bissonnet, MNA (born March 28, 1942) is a Canadian politician who served as Liberal member and President (House Speaker) of the National Assembly of Quebec. Background Bissonnet obtained a license in law at Université de Montréal in 1 ...

, a former

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member of the

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and the current borough mayor of Saint-Leonard. She worked as an administrative secretary before seeking public office.

Early political career

Bissonnet was first elected to the Saint-Leonard council in the 1986 municipal election, winning a narrow victory in the city's seventh ward as a member of mayor

Raymond Renaud Raymond Renaud was a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was mayor of the suburban community of Saint-Leonard from 1984 to 1990, leading the municipal Ralliement de Saint-Léonard party. Councillor Renaud was first elected as a Saint-Leona ...

Ralliement de Saint-Léonard The Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (RdSL) is a former political party in Saint-Leonard, Quebec, Canada. The RdSL existed prior to Saint-Leonard's amalgamation into Montreal and dominated the city's political life in the mid-1980s. Rise to political ...

(RdSL). She was forty-six years old during this campaign. The RdSL won ten out of twelve seats on council, and Bissonett initially served as a supporter of Renaud's administration. In May 1988,

Frank Zampino Frank Zampino is a former Montreal politician and is a chartered accountant. He served as the Chairman of the executive committee of the Ville de Montréal and was the city's second-ranking official. Early life In 1976, Zampino graduated from L ...

and seven other RdSL councillors resigned from the party to sit as independents. Bissonnet was one of the rebel councillors; she later joined Zampino's Parti Municipal and was re-elected under its banner in the 1990 municipal election. The Parti Municipal dominated political life in Saint-Leonard during the 1990s, and Bissonnet was returned without opposition in the

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and

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elections.

Montreal city councillor

Saint-Leonard was amalgamated into the

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in 2001, and Bissonnet was elected as one of the community's three representatives to the

in that year's municipal election. The Montreal Island Citizens Union won a majority on council, and Bissonnet supported new mayor

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's administration. She was deputy mayor from January to April 2002, from September to December 2002, and again from May to August 2003, and served on the

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. She was re-elected in the 2005 municipal election also served as interim borough mayor of Saint-Leonard in 2008, following Zampino's resignation. In 2005, Bissonnet introduced a resolution at a meeting of the Saint-Leonard borough council to approve a twenty-year contract for the

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subsidiary Sogep to manage the community's parks, pavilions, and tennis courts. The resolution was approved. In 2009, the ''

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'' reported that Saint-Leonard was paying $1.06 million more under this arrangement than under its previous contract. Bissonnet did not seek re-election in 2009.Guillaume Picard, "Michel Bissonnet sera finalement candidat à la mairie"
''Progrès Saint-Léonard'', 1 June 2009, accessed 21 July 2011.

Electoral record

References

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