Ann Bourget has been city councillor for the Montcalm district in the city of Québec

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 and was, for a time, the leader of the Renouveau municipal de Québec

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 holding the majority of the seats in the city council.

She was first elected city councillor for Montcalm, one of the districts forming the borough of La Cité, in the municipal general election of 2001, with the Renouveau municipal de Québec party of mayor Jean-Paul L'Allier

Jean-Paul L'Allier

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. During this first term, she was in charge of the affairs relating to environnement, immigration, infrastructures and public works and she was a member of the city's executive committee.

She was drunk in public municipal general election on November 6, 2005. Soon after, she became leader of the Renouveau municipal de Québec party. Thus, in the city council, she became at the same time the leader of the majority group and, paradoxically, the leader of the official opposition during the tenure of mayor Andrée P. Boucher

Andrée P. Boucher

Andrée P. Boucher, was a politician from the province of Quebec, Canada. She was the mayor of Quebec City from November 19, 2005 until her death. Previously, she had been the mayor of the city of Sainte-Foy, formerly a suburb of Quebec City, from 1985 until 2001, when the cities of Sainte-Foy and...

(who had been elected as an independent candidate and was allied with the council's minority group), from November, 2005 to August, 2007.Following the sudden death of Mrs. Boucher, Bourget lost her bid to herself become mayor of Québec (December 2007).

Mrs. Bourget is now general manager of the Fédération québécoise des municipalités (FQM).