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Benoît Labonté
Benoît Labonté (born 28 December 1959) was a city councillor with the Vision Montréal party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was the mayor of the borough of Ville-Marie until 2009. He was in favour of the merger of all Montreal Island municipalities into the megacity.
Labonté, a former head of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, is a Canadian federalist. He once worked as an aide to former finance minister Paul Martin of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Previously a member
Ville-Marie borough council in the 2005 Montreal municipal election as a candidate of Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). He lost to Pierre Mainville of the opposition Vision Montreal party. MICU won four of the borough council's five seats, and borough mayor Benoît Labonté subsequently hired Duthel as Ville-Marie's director of public affairs. Duthel was an organizer for the 2006 Montreal Outgames and specifically in charge of the First LGBT Human rights international conference which gathered in Montréal, in June 2006, around