Pierre Goyer

Pierre Goyer is a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec. [ [http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/121897/annus.html Mayor Bourque's Annus Horibilis, Montreal Mirror] ]

City Councillor

He was elected to Montreal's City Council as a Montreal Citizens' Movement (RCM) candidate in the district of Jean-Talon in 1986, defeating Civic incumbent George Savoidakis. In 1989, he left the RCM and founded the "Democratic Coalition of Montreal" with three other colleagues.

He was re-elected in the district of Saint-Édouard in 1990. In 1992, he left the Coalition with colleague Claudette Demers-Godley to sit as an Independent.

Member of the Executive Committee

In 1994, Goyer ran as a Vision Montreal candidate and was re-elected. He became a member of Montreal's Executive Committee. In 1997 he was asked to resign from the Executive Committee. He left Vision Montreal and sat as an Independent, but refused to resign from the Executive Committee.

Political Decline

In 1998 he ran as a candidate for Jean Doré's "Équipe Montréal (Team Montreal)" but was defeated by François Purcell.

Footnotes

ee also

* Vision Montreal Crisis, 1997