Christine Poulin is a politician in

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, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2005 as a member of

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(VM).

City councillor

She was elected to council in the 2001 municipal election for the Laurier division, defeating incumbent candidate Richard Théorêt of the

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(MICU). MICU won a council majority in this election, and Poulin served as a member of the

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with Vision Montréal with former mayor of Montreal Pierre Bourque. In 2001 municipal election was the first to be held in Montreal after the city's amalgamation with neighbouring suburbs. In 2002, Poulin accused Montreal mayor

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of failing to decentralize administrative services in the city's pre-amalgamation borders. She was the president of the urbanism commission of borough Plateau Mont-Royal, and member of the Commission on corporate business, strategic management, human capital and ethnocultural diversity. In 2005, Poulin joined with

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and

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to take part in

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Canada's "Colour for Charity" campaign. The three councillors were publicly painted a variety of vibrant colours, in return for receiving a combined ten thousand dollars to donate to a charity of their choice."City councillors across Canada add splash of colour to local politics," ''Canada NewsWire'', 30 March 2005, p. 1. By virtue of her position on city council, Poulin also served on the

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. She ran in the De Lorimier ward in the

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and was defeated by

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candidate Carl Boileau who give is place to Richard Bergeron. She participated in a mission to observe the elections in Ukraine in 2012 and 2019. Christine Poulin is regulated immigration consultant, member of ICCRC, board regulation of immigration consultants in Canada, since 2013. She owns Immigration Elite Inc. She is active in CAPIC-ACCPI, the canadian professional association of immigration consultant like VP Quebec. She holds a BA in Political Science from Laval University, a Certificate in International Business of HEC in Montreal, a master's in international management from ENAP. She finished a certificate in law from Université of Montreal. President of the association BPW Montreal, a chapter of Business professional women international, this chapter was created since 1926. Also she participated at the creation of an association of former Québec municipal councillors in 2019.

Electoral record

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poulin, Christine Living people Montreal city councillors Women municipal councillors in Quebec Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian municipal councillors 21st-century Canadian women politicians