Chantal Rossi Explained

Chantal Rossi
Office1:Associate councillor on the Montreal Executive Committee with responsibility for culture, heritage, and design
Term Start1:2013
Predecessor1:position created
Office2:Borough mayor of Montréal-Nord (interim)
Term Start2:January 2016
Term End2:April 2016
Predecessor2:Gilles Deguire
Successor2:Christine Black
Office3:Montreal City Councillor for Marie-Clarac
Term Start3:2013
Predecessor3:Clementina Teti-Tomassi
Office4:Montréal-Nord borough councillor for Marie-Clarac
Term Start4:2009
Term End4:2013
Predecessor4:Clementina Teti-Tomassi
Successor4:Monica Ricourt
Office5:Member of the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île, District Sixteen
Term Start5:1998
Term End5:2014
Predecessor5:position created
Successor5:position eliminated
Party:Union Montreal (2009-2013)
Independent (2013)
Équipe Denis Coderre (2013–)

Chantal Rossi is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on the Montreal city council since 2013 as a member of Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. She was previously a borough councillor in Montréal-Nord from 2009 to 2013 and an elected trustee on the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île from 1998 to 2014.

Early life and career

Rossi was born in Montréal-Nord.[1] She is the daughter of Carlo Rossi, who represented Bourassa in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988. In 1987, she helped convince her father to reverse his long-standing support for capital punishment and to vote against its re-introduction.[2]

A mother at a young age, Rossi worked for several years as a Bank of Montreal cashier before entering public life.[3] She is a trained mezzo-soprano singer and has performed concerts in Montreal.[4]

School commissioner

Rossi was first elected to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île in 1998 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. She was not a candidate in the deferred election of 2014.

Borough councillor

Rossi was elected to the Montréal-Nord borough council in the 2009 Montreal municipal election as a Union Montreal candidate in Marie-Clarac. On council, she had special responsibility for culture and preparations for Montréal-Nord's centenary in 2015.[5] She resigned from Union Montreal on February 21, 2013, after a corruption scandal implicated some of the party's leading members[6] and joined Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal on June 17 of the same year.[7]

City councillor

Rossi was elected to the Montreal city council for Marie-Clarac in the 2013 municipal election. Denis Coderre was elected as mayor and his party won a plurality of seats on council; on November 18, 2013, Coderre appointed Rossi as an associate councillor to the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) with responsibility for culture, heritage, and design. She worked in conjunction with Manon Gauthier, the executive councillor responsible for these files.[8]

Rossi continues to serve on the Montréal-Nord borough council by virtue of holding her position on city council. When Gilles Deguire resigned as borough mayor amid scandal in January 2016, Rossi was appointed as his interim replacement.[9] She served in this role until April 2016, when Christine Black was elected to the position in a by-election.[10] During her tenure as mayor, the city of Montreal introduced a sculpture resembling a ferris wheel as an identifying beacon in one of Montréal-Nord's busiest thoroughfares. The sculpture prompted some criticism for its $1.1 million cost, although many defended it on the grounds that it added a "rare bit of positive recognition" for the frequently troubled region of the city. Rossi was quoted as saying, "It's clear that Montreal North has experienced a lot of pain [in recent years]. This helps to put a balm on that pain."[11]

In the 2017 Montreal municipal election, Rossi ran as co-candidate for Coderre in the district of Ovide-Clermont. This means that if Coderre had been elected mayor and also city councillor for Ovide-Clermont, he would have sat as mayor and Rossi would have assumed the post of city councillor for Ovide-Clermont. Coderre won the city councillor election but lost the mayoral election; as he chose to resign from municipal politics, he exercised his option to cede the city council post to Rossi.

Electoral record

School board

References

  1. http://www.equipedeniscoderre.com/equipe/chantal-rossi/ Chantal Rossi (2013 campaign page)
  2. Caitlin Kelly, "Tough turnabout; Changing his mind on death penalty reveals humanity of cop-turned-MP," Montreal Gazette, 2 May 1987, B6.
  3. http://journalmetro.com/local/montreal-nord/actualites/909133/de-leglise-a-la-mairie-chantal-rossi-une-ascension-atypique/ Romain Schué, "De l’église à la mairie: Chantal Rossi, une ascension atypique"
  4. "Music Scene: This week's selection of aural happenings," Montreal Gazette, 22 July 2005, D13; Concert de Noël de la conseillère Chantal Rossi, Courrier Ahuntsic & Bordeaux-Cartierville, 13 November 2013, accessed 5 December 2013.
  5. http://www.equipedeniscoderre.com/equipe/chantal-rossi/ Chantal Rossi (2013 campaign page)
  6. Ron Bruemmer, "Union Montreal loses six more members; Party heavyweight Michel Bissonnet 'in period of reflection' about future," Montreal Gazette, 22 February 2013, A4.
  7. News: Kovac . Adam . June 18, 2013 . Eight candidates join Coderre slate . . Montreal, Quebec . A8 . January 26, 2024 . newspapers.com.
  8. http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/coderre-names-executive-committee-1.1548740 Coderre names executive committee
  9. News: Le maire de Montréal-Nord, Gilles Deguire, démissionne. January 7, 2016. Radio Canada. January 7, 2016.
  10. http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/montreal/201604/24/01-4974633-christine-black-elue-mairesse-de-montreal-nord.php Audrey Ruel-Manseau, "Christine Black élue mairesse de Montréal-Nord"
  11. René Bruemmer, "The immobile ferris wheel of Montreal North; $1.1M work of public art intended to bring whimsy to neighbourhood," Montreal Gazette, 1 March 2016, A2.

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