Marie Cinq-Mars
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Marie Cinq-Mars is a city councillor
Montreal City Council
The Montreal City Council is the governing body of Montreal, Quebec. The head of the city government in Montreal is the mayor, who is first among equals in the City Council. The mayor is Gérald Tremblay, who is a member of the Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l'Île de Montréal...

 from Montreal
Montreal
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, Quebec
Quebec
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, Canada
Canada
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. She has served as the borough mayor of Outremont since 2007. She is a member of the Union Montreal
Union Montreal
Union Montreal is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It currently governs Montreal's city government.-Origins:It was established as the Montreal Island Citizens Union in the aftermath of the province-wide municipal merger of 2001 and not long before the municipal election...

 municipal political party.

Cinq-Mars was first elected as a city councillor with the former city of Outremont in 1999. Following Outremont's merger with Montreal, she was then elected as a city councillor representing the borough of Outremont in 2002. She sits of the city of Montreal's executive committee where she is responsible for the portfolios of culture, heritage, design and the feminine condition.

Cinq-Mars holds a degree in Communications from Concordia University
Concordia University
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 and in Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal
Université du Québec à Montréal
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. She is a professional artist and was a teacher until 2007.

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