Yvon Boucher

Yvon Boucher is a Quebec municipal politician and businessmen in Gatineau, Quebec. He is the current councillor for the district of La Riviere Blanche in the Gatineau sector.

Prior to his political career, Boucher worked as a forest producer, financial advisor and a businessman for a concrete company.

Boucher was first elected as a councillor in 1995 in the former city of Gatineau under then-mayor Guy Lacroix, obtaining about 43% of the votes. He was re-elected for three other mandates in 1999, with the old city and in 2001 and 2005 in the amalgamated city of Gatineau. His win in 1999 was without opposition while his victory in 2001 during the first elections of the new city of Gatineau was by a razor-thin margin of seven votes which necessitated a recount that gave him the win by four votes only. [cite news | author = Bouchard, Regis | title = Les élections de Joseph De Sylva et d'Yvon Boucher sont confirmées | publisher = Le Droit | date = November 9, 2001 | page = 4 ]

Prior to the 2001 election, he had a heated conflict with the mayor of the former city of Gatineau, Robert Labine who criticized Boucher for causing trouble, for misinforming his constituents, for not working as a team member and for not giving credit to everyone on projects made. This happened following comments made by Boucher ont a ward issue. Boucher replied that Labine never invited him to join his team. [ cite news | author = Rodrigue, Isabelle | title = Règlement de comptes à Gatineau : "La ville de cow-boys, c'est fini", vocifère le conseiller Yvon Boucher | publisher = Le Droit | date = May 31, 2001 | page = 3 ]

Among his priorities includes improving recreational trails, pathways and parks as well as traffic safety, and the development of the future Rapibus project, similar to Ottawa's transitway system. It is a member of the Public safety Committee since the 2005 elections.

In 2006, Boucher was opposed to the construction of a new plant for septic mud treatment as he was not informed by the project. It was later annulled by Marc Bureau (who was previously in favour of the project) after opposition by the general public and criticism by Boucher and Louise Poirier for not informing the full council. Boucher would have step down as a member of the Corporation de developpement economique (Economic Development Corporation of Gatineau as a result of the dispute.

Boucher also contributed in the realization of the first ever covered bridge in North America in the 21st century that was built by dozens of volunteers near the La Blanche River and will be the first of four similar bridges along a cycling and walking that would connect to the future pathway included the Rapibus transit and the Route Verte cycling network that follows mostly Route 148 and the Ottawa River across the Outaouais towards the Laurentians and Montreal [cite web | author = LCN | title = Un pont couvert unique en Amérique du Nord | url = http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/infos/regional/archives/2007/08/20070828-090708.html|date = August 28, 2007] .

ee also

* Gatineau City Council

References

External links

* [http://www.ville.gatineau.qc.ca/conseil.asp Current members of Gatineau City Council]