From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominic Perri
Dominic Perri
Dominic Perri Succeeded by redistribution[2]
Montreal City Councillor for Saint-Léonard-Ouest Ward Personal details
Incumbent Political party Union Montreal
Assumed office
2005 Dominic Perri is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He has served on the Montreal city council since 2001 as
Preceded by position created a member of mayor Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montreal
Montreal City Councillor for Saint-Léonard Ward (with Frank party, formerly known as the Montreal Island Citizens’
Zampino and Yvette Bissonnet)
Bissonnet) Union. He was previously was a member of the Saint-
Leonard city council and chair of the Commission sco-
In office
2001–2005
laire Jérôme-Le Royer.
Preceded by position created
Private career
Succeeded by position abolished
Perri holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s
Saint-Leonard City Councillor, Ward Six degree. He is a high-school science teacher in private
In office life.[3]
1982–2001
Preceded by Eduardo di Bennardo Saint-Leonard city councillor
Succeeded by position abolished Perri was elected for Saint-Leonard’s sixth council dis-
trict in the 1982 municipal election as a candidate of
Chair of the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer
mayor Antonio di Ciocco’s Équipe du renouveau de la cité
In office de Saint-Léonard. The party fragmented after Di Cioc-
1984–1987 co’s death in 1984, and Perri joined the Ralliement de
Preceded by Alfonso Gagliano Saint-Léonard under successor mayor Raymond Renaud.
He considered running for mayor of Saint-Leonard in
Succeeded by Joe Morselli
1986, saying that he had been approached by local politi-
Member of the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer ,
Royer, cians such as Michel Bissonnet. When Renaud announced
District Eleven that he would seek another term, however, Perri decided
In office
against challenging him and was instead re-elected to
1994–1998 council.[4]
In 1988, Perri joined with Frank Zampino and six oth-
Preceded by redistribution[1]
er Saint-Leonard councillors in resigning from Renaud’s
Succeeded by position abolished party. Charging that Renaud’s administration was unde-
mocratic, the rebels established new municipal commit-
Royer,
Member of the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer ,
District Sixteen tees to oversee policy and increase civic participation in
government.[5] The group coalesced as the Parti munic-
In office ipal, and Perri was re-elected under its banner in 1990,
1990–1994
1994, and 1998.[6]
Preceded by position created
Succeeded by position abolished School board commissioner
Member of the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer ,
Royer, Perri was elected to the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le
District Thirteen Royer in 1980 and re-elected in 1983. He became chair of
In office the board in 1984, succeeding Alfonso Gagliano, who had
1980–1990 been elected to the Canadian House of Commons.[7]
Preceded by position created
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominic Perri
Language issues 2002 until 2010.[22] In 2005, he introduced a motion for
Perri welcomed the creation of an English-language edu- Saint-Leonard to ban pit bull dogs.[23] He also initiated
cational services department in early 1985, saying that it a ban on wood burning in Montreal which led to a mu-
would permit the board’s anglophone students to access nicipal bylaw forbidding wood burning in new construc-
a full range of services. A single department had previ- tions.[24]
ously overseen both French and English services.[8] Later
in the year, Perri announced that his board would start
providing recreational and crafts services in English. [9]
Federal politics
Perri supported measures to increase bilingualism Perri campaigned with Liberal Party candidate Massimo
among his board’s students. He promoted a voluntary pi- Pacetti in a 2002 federal by-election.[25]
lot project for francophone students to receive English-
language instruction as early as the first grade.[10] He al-
so oversaw an expansion in French-language education
Electoral record
for anglophone students, saying, "I’d like our kids coming School commission
out of English school completely bilingual."[11]
Perri opposed efforts to replace Quebec’s denomina-
tional school system with a language-based system, ar- References
guing that the shift would be detrimental to English
schools.[12] [1] Vincenzo Arciresi represented district eleven after
Other issues 1994.
In 1985, Perri supported a plan to shift 450 French-sector [2] Fernando Barberini represented the thirteenth
seventh grade students to a local comprehensive school district following redistribution.
in order to create space for an equal number of younger [3] "Who is running for seats on eight school boards,"
students. Some parents opposed this plan, arguing that Montreal Gazette, 14 November 1987, p. 16; Adelia
the comprehensive school was too large and that the sev- Cellini, "Inventive student; Looking for sponsor to
enth graders would be exposed to the bad habits of older develop portable diagnostic device," Montreal
students.[13] As a compromise, the board proposed con- Gazette, 4 October 1995, C4; Dominic Perri - Saint-
structing a wall that would divide the comprehensive Léonard-Ouest District, Union Montreal, accessed
school into two units; it was refused permission to do this 28 September 2011.
by the province’s education department.[14] The student [4] "Board head may seek mayor’s job," Montreal
transfer ultimately did not take place.[15] Gazette, 10 July 1986, p. 5; "List of mayoral
After 1987 candidates may grow," Montreal Gazette, 31 July
When running for re-election in 1987, Perri called for 1986, p. 7; "Five new candidates join St. Leonard
an increased focus on English, French, maths, and sci- mayor’s slate," Montreal Gazette, 2 October 1986, p.
ences, and a reduction in the number of elective cours- 8; "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area
es.[16] His political partnership with fellow commissioner municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986,
Joe Morselli dissolved during the election, and, although p. 8.
Perri was himself re-elected, only one other member of [5] "Eight St. Leonard city councillors quit mayor’s
his governing alliance was returned to the board.[17] The ’undemocratic’ party," Montreal Gazette, 5 May 1988,
new board chose Morselli to succeed Perri as chair and p. 3; "St. Leonard councillors aim to inform
discontinued Perri’s pilot project of teaching English to residents," Montreal Gazette, 19 May 1988, p. 8.
first-grade francophone students.[18] [6] Mike King, "Zampino, 8 councillors acclaimed in St.
Perri was re-elected to the board in 1990 and 1994.[19] Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 18 October 1994, p. 6;
Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for
Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, p. 6.
Montreal city councillor [7] "Board head may seek mayor’s job," Montreal
Saint-Leonard was amalgamated into the City of Montre- Gazette, 10 July 1986, p. 5.
al in 2001. Perri was elected to the Montreal city council [8] "Board improves English services," Montreal Gazette,
in that year’s municipal election as a candidate of Gérald 23 January 1985, p. 2.
Tremblay’s Montreal Island Citizens’ Union and was re- [9] "St. Leonard OKs classes in English," Montreal
elected in 2005 and 2009.[20] He has served on the board Gazette, 24 July 1985, p. 3.
of the Montreal Transit Corporation and has chaired its [10] "Look at English class alternatives: Perri," Montreal
subsidiary, Transgesco LP, since its creation.[21] Gazette, 20 November 1986, p. 1; "Plan to expand
By virtue of serving on the Montreal city council, Per- English teaching causes a storm," Montreal Gazette,
ri also serves on the Saint-Leonard borough council. He 30 April 1987, p. 4; Debbie Parkes, "English offered
chaired the borough’s planning advisory committee from in Grade 1 despite bid to block move," Montreal
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Gazette, 11 June 1987, p. 7; Debbie Parkes, "Board [19] "More school board vote results," Montreal Gazette,
firm: no retreat on English in Grade 1," Montreal 21 November 1990, p. 3; "List of winners in
Gazette, 9 July 1987, p. 1; Catherine Buckie, "Quebec Montreal Island board elections," Montreal Gazette,
silent: English project is set," Montreal Gazette, 13 21 November 1994, p. 6.
August 1987, p. 4; Jeannie Stiglic, "Grade 1 English [20] Jane Davenport, "Let prosperity reign: Many in St.
classes set to begin - without Education Leonard believe merger can only enrich the lively
Department’s OK," Montreal Gazette, 1 October 1987, town," Montreal Gazette, 6 October 2001, p. 6; "’We
p. 8. showed who’s boss’: Team Tremblay captures the
[11] Debbie Parkes, "Le Royer will increase teaching east," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, p. 7.
time of French," Montreal Gazette, 1 May 1986, p. 10. [21] James Mennie, "Transit subsidiary’s contracts a
[12] "Scrap religious boards to save English education, tender spot," Montreal Gazette’, 17 September 2004, p.
meeting told," Montreal Gazette, 4 April 1986, p. 1. 6; "Scotiabank branches out to Metro McGill," Canada
[13] "Decision on fate of 900 students due next month," Newswire, 20 April 2009.
Montreal Gazette, 20 February 1985, p. 6; Debbie [22] Guillaume Picard, "Saint-Léonard : Dominic Perri
Parkes, "School transfer is going ahead despite écarté de la présidence du CCU", Progrès Saint-
protests," Montreal Gazette, 20 March 1985, p. 1; Léonard, 5 May 2010, accessed 28 June 2011.
"Parents win major battle in school-transfer fight," [23] Anne Sutherland, "St. Leonard eyes pit bull ban,"
Montreal Gazette, 22 May 1985, p. 1; "Angry parents Montreal Gazette, 12 January 2005, p. 9.
plan to protest school decision," Montreal Gazette, [24] Joel Ceausu, "Wood stoves being phased out," The
12 June 1985, p. 1. Suburban, 24 August 2011, p. 83.
[14] "Board may ignore order not to build wall to divide [25] Hubert Bauch, "Gagliano’s former riding a Liberal
school," Montreal Gazette, 17 April 1985, p. 5. bastion," Montreal Gazette, 12 May 2002, p. 4.
[15] Debbie Parkes, "Placing Grade 7s divides school
board," Montreal Gazette, 6 March 1986, p. 7; "Grade
7 switch a dead issue - Jerome Le Royer chairman,"
External links
Montreal Gazette, 5 June 1986, p. 6. • Union Montreal biography
[16] "4 alliances fight for control of Jerome Le Royer Persondata
board," Montreal Gazette, 12 November 1987, p. 10. Name Perri, Dominic
[17] "Anjou candidates blame their loss on mayor’s
letter," Montreal Gazette, 19 November 1987, p. 15; Alternative names
Debbie Parkes, "Municipal alliances show in school Short description
vote," Montreal Gazette, 26 November 1987, p. 7. Date of birth
[18] "Morselli elected to head Jerome Le Royer; Former
Place of birth
foes back new chairman in exchange for policy
support," Montreal Gazette, 26 November 1987, p. 7; Date of death
"English instruction in Grade 1 in jeopardy," Place of death
Montreal Gazette, 3 December 1987, p. 11;
"Enrolment boost sought through immersion
plan," Montreal Gazette, 3 March 1988, p. 6.
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