Roger Larivée Explained

Roger Larivée is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Civic Party of Montreal.

Larivée worked at his family's roofing firm in private life.^[1] He first ran for a seat on city council in the 1974 municipal election and was defeated in the second Saint-Jacques ward. He was elected in the 1978 municipal election, in which the Civic Party won a landslide majority, and served for the next four years as a backbench supporter of mayor Jean Drapeau's administration. He was defeated by Robert Perreault of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the 1982 election.

Larivée intended to run as a Civic Party candidate again in the 1986 municipal election but was denied the nomination.^[2] He later briefly affiliated with the Montreal Municipal Democratic Alliance party,^[3] but ultimately chose to run as an independent. He finished a distant third.

References

1. Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.
2. Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.
3. "New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.