Marc Demers is a

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politician, who served as mayor of Laval from 2013 to 2021. He was elected in the city's 2013 municipal election."Honesty is only policy for new Laval mayor Marc Demers"

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, November 4, 2013. A former police officer, he took office at a time when the city was under trusteeship due to a corruption scandal that had enveloped his predecessors Gilles Vaillancourt and Alexandre Duplessis. In 2017, Demers announced that a portion of the money repaid to the city by the convicted former mayors would be set aside to create a fund for disadvantaged youth in the city."Laval creates fund with recouped corruption money to give back to city youth"

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, June 19, 2017.

Upbringing

Demers was born in August 1951 to a father who owned a private investigating firm and who was once an RCMP officer. Demers' father died young in 1959 and his dad's once successful business went bankrupt. The firm's bankruptcy plunged the Demers family into near poverty, where his mother struggled to take care of the family, which consisted of five kids. The Demers lived in rent-subsidized apartments. Demers graduated from St. Maxime high school.

Career

Demers became a police officer in 1971. In the early 1980s he discovered that the former mayor of Laval, Gilles Vaillancourt, was engaged in fraudulent activity. Demers found evidence that councilor Vaillancourt, at the time, held money in a local credit union under a false name to avoid paying more income taxes.

References

Living people Mayors of Laval, Quebec 1951 births 21st-century mayors of places in Quebec {{Quebec-mayor-stub