Dominique Ollivier (born 1964) is a Canadian politician. She was chair of the

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between the

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and 13 November 2023, and is a councillor in the Vieux-Rosemont district of the

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borough.

Biography

Dominique Ollivier is the daughter of writer, sociologist and professor

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and Marie-Josée Glémaux. Her parents fled

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's regime, arriving in

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, in

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, in 1966 when Dominique was two, and moving to

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in 1968.

Education and career

Ollivier holds a master's degree in engineering from

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and a master's degree in public administration from the

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. In the early 1990s, she founded Images Interculturelles and a related magazine, the ''Revue Images'', which she edited with Alix Laurent and which was distributed as an insert to

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. From 1995 to 2001, she held a number of positions in ministerial cabinets in the Quebec government and for social organizations. In the

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, Ollivier was a candidate for former mayor

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's new party, Équipe Montréal, in the Pointe-Sainte-Charles district. She obtained 10.3% of the vote and was defeated by the incumbent city councillor, independent Marcel Sévigny. From 2001 to 2006, Ollivier worked in the office of

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leader

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. In August 2004, in the lead-up to the

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in the riding of Gouin, she lost the

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nomination to future MNA

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. From 2006 to 2011, Ollivier was managing director of the Institut de coopération pour l'éducation des adultes (ICEA). From February 2009 to September 2014, Ollivier held the position of ad hoc commissioner of the Office de consultation publique de Montréal, then became its president on September 15, 2014, a position she held until September 9, 2021.

City councillor

In 2021, Ollivier ran for city councillor for the

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party in the Vieux-Rosemont district of the

borough. She was elected with 70.7% of the vote.

Chair of the Montréal Executive Committee

Following the

, Ollivier became chair of the Montreal Executive Committee. She is the fourth woman and first black woman to hold this position. She resigned on 13 November 2023.

References

External links

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on the

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