Preceded by position created Preceded by position created Role Politician | Succeeded by Monica Ricourt Name Chantal Rossi | |
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Preceded by Clementina Teti-Tomassi Preceded by Clementina Teti-Tomassi Political party Union Montreal, Equipe Denis Coderre pour Montreal | ||
Chantal Rossi is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on the Montreal city council since November 2013 as a member of Equipe Denis Coderre pour Montreal. She was previously a borough councillor in Montreal-Nord from 2005 to 2009 and has served on the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Ile since 1998.
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Early life and career
Rossi was born in Montreal-Nord. She is the daughter of Carlo Rossi, who represented Bourassa in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988. In 1987, she helped convinced her father to reverse his long-standing support for capital punishment and to vote against its re-introduction.
Rossi is a trained mezzo-soprano singer and has performed concerts in Montreal.
School commissioner
Rossi was first elected to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Ile in 1998 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007.
Borough councillor
Rossi was elected to the Montreal-Nord borough council in the 2009 Montreal municipal election as a Union Montreal candidate in Marie-Clarac. She served for a full four-year term. On council, she had special responsibility for culture and preparations for Montreal-Nord's centenary in 2015.
Rossi resigned from Union Montreal to sit as an independent on February 21, 2013, after a corruption scandal implicated some of the party's leading members. She joined Equipe Denis Coderre pour Montreal on June 17.
City councillor
Rossi was elected to Montreal city council for Marie-Clarac in the 2013 municipal election. Denis Coderre was elected as mayor of Montreal in this election, 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 with responsibility for culture, heritage, and design. She works in conjunction with Manon Gauthier, the executive councillor responsible for these files.
Rossi continues to serve on the Montreal-Nord borough council by virtue of holding her position on city council.