Yves Ryan was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.
22 Facts About Yves Ryan
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Yves Ryan served as the mayor of Montreal North from 1963 until 2001, when the suburban city was amalgamated into the new city of Montreal.
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Yves Ryan was the youngest brother of Claude Ryan, a prominent politician and journalist in Quebec.
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Yves Ryan edited Le Montreal-Nord from 1952 to 1956 and later co-founded Le Guide de Montreal-Nord.
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Yves Ryan was personally involved in many aspects of municipal government and was acknowledged, even by his opponents, as a very popular figure in his city.
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Yves Ryan was often re-elected without opposition or by large majorities, and he had little difficulty controlling city council through his Renouveau municipale party.
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Yves Ryan was known for his tight budgetary spending; in December 1985, he said that Montreal North had the lowest per-capita spending of all Quebec cities of a comparable size.
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Montreal North did not introduce a curbside recycling program in the 1990s, largely because Yves Ryan did not want to introduce the requisite tax increase.
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In 1999, anti-poverty groups accused Yves Ryan of neglecting low-income housing; he disputed the charge, saying that his administration participated in three provincial programs and had created significantly more units than his opponents suggested.
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Yves Ryan continued to promote the line for most of his time in office but was opposed by other municipal politicians, who argued that it made little sense in a broader urban framework.
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Yves Ryan later served as president of the MUC's security council, which oversaw the unified force.
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Yves Ryan announced in 1979 that Montreal would resume issuing English-French bilingual driving tickets, following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that required bilingual tickets in Manitoba.
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Yves Ryan was a member of the Montreal Urban Community Transportation Commission in the mid-1980s, when the commission consisted of a largely autonomous chairman and two commissioners.
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Yves Ryan himself was named as the first chairman of the restructured board in December 1985.
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Yves Ryan stood down in 1986 and was replaced by Robert Perreault.
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Yves Ryan was appointed to a second term as MUCTC chair in 1994, after Perreault was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec.
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Yves Ryan opposed funding cuts introduced by Montreal mayor Pierre Bourque in 1997, on the grounds that they would jeopardize the future of public transit in the region.
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Yves Ryan was replaced as MUCTC chair after the 1998 election.
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Yves Ryan was a vocal opponent of the Quebec government's plan to merge all of Montreal's municipalities into a single city, and in late 2000 he played a prominent role in a large street protest in opposition to the plan.
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Yves Ryan chose to retire in 2001 rather than run for a seat on the new city council.
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In 2004, Yves Ryan was appointed by the new provincial government of Jean Charest to chair a committee overseeing the demerger of Longueuil.
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Yves Ryan ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.