- Andre Chabot
André Chabot is a municipal level politician in Calgary,
Alberta ,Canada who currently serves as theAlderman for Ward 10 of theCalgary City Council . He was elected in a 2005 by-election after Incumbent Margot Aftergood resigned after allegations of avote rigging scandal surfaced involving mail in ballots from the 2004 Calgary municipal elections.Andre Chabot represents the communities of Abbeydale, Albert Park/Radisson Heights, Applewood, Forest Heights, Forest Lawn, Marlborough, Marlborough Park, Penbrooke Meadows and Red Carpet/Mountview [Cite web|url=http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cns/community_social_statistics/ward_10_profile.pdf|title=Ward 10 Profile|author=City of Calgary|year=2004|accessdate=2007-05-05] , in the city's south-east quadrant. He also sits in the Calgary Economic Development Board of Directors. [CED . [http://www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com/AboutCED/CEDboard.cfm Board of Directors] ]
In 2006, he opposed a bylaw that would have made it an offence to spit, urinate, defecate, loiter, fight or show a knife in public. [CBC News (July 2006. [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/07/06/behaviour-bylaw.html Calgary mulls bad-behaviour bylaw] ]
In 2007, he pushed for a bylaw to allow ashtrays at entry points into public buildings in an effort to avoid garbage created by discarded butts. [The Calgary Sun. (August 2007). [http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/07/14/4338801-sun.html City plans to butt out smoking litterbugs] ]
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* [http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Municipal+Government/Office+of+the+Aldermen/Ward+Offices/Ward+10/Ward+10.htm City of Calgary Ward 10 homepage]
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