Suzanne Caron is a former mayor and councillor of Mount Royal

Mount Royal, Quebec

Mount Royal is a town located on the northwest side of Mount Royal, north of downtown Montreal, on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The town is completely surrounded by Montreal. The population was 18,933 at the 2006 census...

 in the city of Montreal

Montreal

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. First elected as a councillor in 1999, she was elected borough mayor as a candidate for Gérald Tremblay

Gérald Tremblay

Gérald Tremblay is a Canadian politician and businessman currently serving his third term as mayor of Montreal and as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community...

's Montreal Island Citizens' Union when the Quebec government merged all the municipalities on the island of Montreal into one city in 2001. In 2003, she left the party over differences in the level of decentralization to the boroughs, and subsequently led the Yes side in the following demerger referendum.

She sought election as mayor

Mayor

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 of the reconstituted Town of Mount Royal, but lost to former mayor Vera Danyluk, since deceased.