Christine Poulin

Christine Poulin is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2005 as a member of Vision Montreal (VM).

City councillor

She was elected to council in the 2001 municipal election for the Laurier division, defeating incumbent candidate Richard Théorêt of the Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU).^[1] MICU won a council majority in this election, and Poulin served as a member of the official opposition 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 Gérald Tremblay of failing to decentralize administrative services in the city's pre-amalgamation borders.^[2]

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 Toronto city councillor Olivia Chow and Calgary city councillor Ric McIver to take part in Xerox 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.^[3]

By virtue of her position on city council, Poulin also served on the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council. She ran in the De Lorimier ward in the 2005 and was defeated by Projet Montréal candidate Carl Boileau who give is place to Richard Bergeron.

She participated in a mission to observe the elections in Ukraine in 2012.

Christine Poulin is regulated immigration consultant, member of ICCRC, board regulation of immigration consultants in Canada, since 2013.

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.

Electoral record

2005 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, De Lorimier Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Projet Montréal Carl Boileau co-listed with Richard Bergeron 3,078 36.53 Montreal Island Citizens Union Christine Mitton 2,838 33.69 Vision Montreal Christine Poulin (incumbent) 2,509 29.78 Total valid votes 8,425 100 Source: City of Montreal official results (in French), City of Montreal.

2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Laurier Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Vision Montreal Christine Poulin 4,636 57.45 Montreal Island Citizens Union Richard Théorêt (incumbent) 2,945 36.50 White Elephant Party Benoit Mainguy 488 6.05 Total valid votes 8,069 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

References

1. Aaron Derfel, Lisa Fitterman, Catherine Solyom, and Paul Cherry, "Holding on to Montreal: Bourque's party fares well in city, but loses downtown stronghold," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, A6.
2. Linda Gyulai, "Boroughs feel growing pains: We're being muzzled, watchdogs insist," Montreal Gazette, 20 December 2002, A1.
3. "City councillors across Canada add splash of colour to local politics," Canada NewsWire, 30 March 2005, p. 1.