28 Facts About Guy Coulombe

Guy Coulombe, was a senior public servant in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Guy Coulombe was born to an upper-middle-class family in Quebec City.

Guy Coulombe earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a master's degree in sociology from the Universite Laval and later entered a Ph.

Guy Coulombe returned to Quebec City without completing his degree to enter the public service in the early years of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.

Guy Coulombe became a Quebec public servant in 1963 as a member of the Bureau d'amenagement de l'Est de Quebec.

Guy Coulombe briefly entered the Canadian federal civil service in 1969 as assistant deputy minister of supply and services, but returned to Quebec in 1970 to become assistant secretary of the province's treasury board.

Guy Coulombe was retained in this position after Parti Quebecois leader Rene Levesque succeeded Bourassa as premier in 1976.

Guy Coulombe oversaw a restructuring of the organization and announced that it had made a $9.5 million profit for 1979, compared with losses of $14.4 million the previous year.

In September 1982, Guy Coulombe introduced a significant restructuring program for Hydro-Quebec's upper management.

Guy Coulombe released a revised capital spending program shortly thereafter, indicating that the agency would avoid significant new projects over the next five to six years due to a recession and reduced demand.

Guy Coulombe introduced another revised plan in 1983 that further downgraded capital spending in light of ongoing difficulties selling surplus energy to neighbouring markets.

In mid-1985, Guy Coulombe criticized a plan by Robert Bourassa to export twelve thousand megawatts of power to the United States of America.

Guy Coulombe oversaw a major deal in late 1985 to export up to 2,300 megawatts of Quebec's energy to New England utilities.

Guy Coulombe left Hydro-Quebec in April 1988, at around the same time that Premier Bourassa introduced his plans for the massive Great Whale Hydro Project in northern Quebec to provide energy for New York State.

Rumours had previously circulated that Guy Coulombe was unhappy working under Bourassa.

Guy Coulombe was appointed by the government of Canada to the Canadian National Railway board of governors in June 1988.

Guy Coulombe served a brief term as president and chief operating officer of Consolidated-Bathurst Inc in the late 1980s, in which capacity he advocated a merger with Domtar.

Guy Coulombe resigned after Consolidated was sold to Chicago entrepreneur Roger Stone.

Guy Coulombe was appointed as president of the Quebec-Canada Television Consortium in April 1991, and in July 1992 he was appointed to a three-year term on the board of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.

Guy Coulombe was the Quebec government's chief negotiator in land claims negotiations with the Atikamekw and Montagnais First Nations in the same period.

In November 1996, Guy Coulombe was appointed as interim director of the Surete du Quebec, the provincial police force.

Guy Coulombe was the first civilian to oversee the SQ or its predecessor organizations in the force's 127-year history; the SQ had previously been implicated in a serious corruption scandal, and Coulombe's appointment coincided with the launch of a public inquiry into its activities.

Guy Coulombe was appointed as city manager for Montreal in late 1999 and served until early 2003.

In 2004, Guy Coulombe was appointed by the Quebec government to chair a commission on the management of the province's public forests.

Guy Coulombe later chaired an advisory panel that examined a proposal by Loto-Quebec and Cirque du Soleil to establish a casino in Montreal.

In late 2006, Guy Coulombe was appointed as a mediator between the Quebec government and the province's medical specialists in a dispute over pay and working conditions.

Guy Coulombe recommended in 2010 that Quebec introduce a centralized bidding procedure for municipal contacts with a centralized computer registry.

Guy Coulombe was named to the Order of Quebec in June 2007.