Jacques Pretty-Heart

Jacques Pretty-Heart (1940 -) is a senior official and a politician Québécois. Temporary mayor of the town of Quebec since 2002, he became mayor by interim of the Québécois capital following the death of Andrée P. Boucher, on August 24th, 2007 in Quebec to the entry according to Régis Labeaume on December 7th, 2007, elected official on December 2nd, 2007.

Biography

Senior official

After studies in right and history, Mr. Pretty-Heart made career in the Québécois public office. He was Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps to the ministry for the international Businesses of 1979 to 1984, assistant deputy minister of the ministry for the International relations of 1994 to 1996 and in 2000 and 2001, associated with the president of the Commission of the national capital of 1996 to 1998 and deputy minister associated with the ministry for the Culture and the Communications of 1998 to 2000.

According to the political chronicler Michel David, Mr. Pretty-Heart would have been implied in a misunderstanding which created a cold between the Prime Minister for Quebec, Jacques Parizeau, and its possible successor, Lucien Bouchard. In one of its chronicles, published in 1997, David reveals that Mr. Pretty-Heart, as person in charge of the protocol, would have been charged by the Prime Minister with communicating with the principal private secretary of the chief of the Québécois Bloc, which rested between the life and death in a hospital of Montreal in December 1994.

According to the journalist, Mr. Parizeau would have given instructions in order to organize state funeral for the chief of the Official opposition to the House of Commons of Canada. The organization of these funerals was stopped immediately. A few months after the seizure of power of Mr. Bouchard, on September 13rd, 1996, Mr. Pretty-Heart were raised of its functions and were transferred to the Commission of the national capital.

Mr. Pretty-Heart - who occupied the functions of deputy minister associated with the regional Businesses and the international Events of the ministry for the International relations -, asked to be retrogressed at a station of intermediate level in May 2001 in order to be able to stand as a candidate in the team of the municipal Renouveau of Quebec of the mayor Jean-Paul To combine It.

The committee of toponymy, whose work lasted of 2002 to 2007, had as a mandate to examine them: 5000 street names of the 11 old amalgamated municipalities and to eliminate the doubled blooms. The group, composed of seven local personalities, fed the controversy in the old capital by recommending name changes for 754 streets; : 27673 residential addresses like: 1890 commercial and institutional addresses were modified at the end of this process.

Re-elected in November 2005, its renewal as temporary mayor was marked by the first of a series of imbroglios between the mairess Andrée P. Boucher and the chief of the opposition to the municipal council, Ann Le Bourget.

Jacques Pretty-Heart is resident street of Auteuil, in the Old man-Quebec. Very attached to its district, he was founding member of the Committee of the citizens of Old man-Quebec in 1975 and chairman of the board of the popular Caisse Desjardins of the Old man-Quebec during 18 years.

Political affiliation

Mr. Pretty-Heart was a long time near to the Parti Québécois. In November 1993, it worries about anglo-américanomanie which has developed for a few years in France and the open letter of 101 Québécois personalities signs requiring of the French government to take measures in order to protect the French language in the Hexagone.

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