Claude Dauphin

Claude Dauphin
For the French actor, see Claude Dauphin (actor).
Claude Dauphin
Borough mayor for Lachine and Montreal City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 1, 2005
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
2008
Preceded by Frank Zampino
MNA for Marquette
In office
1981–1994
Preceded by First member
Succeeded by François Ouimet
Personal details
Born December 17, 1953 (1953-12-17) (age 57)
Political party Union Montréal (municipal)
Quebec Liberal Party (provincial)
Residence Montreal, Quebec
Occupation Lawyer

Claude Dauphin (born December 17, 1953 in Lachine, Quebec) is a lawyer and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He is a Montreal city councillor and also serves as the mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine. He was also the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Marquette in the Montreal region from 1981 to 1994 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

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Background

Dauphin went to Université Laval and obtained a bachelor's degree in law and also attended the University of British Columbia before being admitted to the Barreau du Quebec. He was active as a lawyer from 1979 to 1981.

Member of the Provincial Legislature

Dauphin entered provincial politics in the 1981 election. He was elected in Marquette and re-elected for two other terms in 1985 and 1989. He was not part of the Robert Bourassa or Daniel Johnson Jr. cabinets from 1985 to 1994 but was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Security and the Justice Minister. He did not seek a fourth in the 1994 elections when the Liberal lost to the Parti Québécois. He was succeeded in Marquette by François Ouimet. He later worked in the office of former Canadian Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin.

Federal politics

Dauphin is a past honorary president of Option Canada. He was criticized in a report surrounding the Grenier Commission which investigated actions by the No Committee during the 1995 referendum. [1]

Montreal City Politics

Dauphin is a past president of the Montreal Transit Corporation.

Dauohin was elected mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine in the 2005 municipal elections. He was also a councillor for Lachine between 2002 and 2005.

He now sits on the Executive Committee of the Montreal municipal council with the rank of vice-president and responsibility for public security. In 2008, he was named by Mayor Gerald Tremblay, as the new Chairperson of the City of Montreal's Executive Committee, replacing Frank Zampino.[1][2]

Dauphin is currently speaker of the Montreal City Council.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dauphin remplace Zampino, Radio-Canada, June 25, 2008
  2. ^ Claude Dauphin succède à Frank Zampino, Sophie Montminy, Canoë Info, June 25, 2008

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National Assembly of Quebec
Preceded by
new riding created		 MNA for Marquette
1981–1994		 Succeeded by
François Ouimet
Political offices
Preceded by
Frank Zampino (Union Montreal)		 Chairman of the Executive Committee
2008-2009		 Succeeded by
Gerald Tremblay


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