Jean-Guy Deschamps
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Jean-Guy Deschamps is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1994 to 2001 as a member of Vision Montreal and was also an elected commissioner on the Montreal Catholic School Commission (MCSC) from 1977 to 1994.
Deschamps worked as an insurance broker in private life.[1] He was elected as a commissioner for the MCSC's tenth ward in the 1977 school board elections, as a candidate of the conservative Movement scolaire confessionnel (MSC),[2] and was re-elected in 1980,[3] 1983, 1987, and 1990.[4] The MSC was the dominant political force in the MCSC during this period, and Deschamps was aligned with the commission's leadership.
In June 1986, a Quebec Superior Court judge questioned the "motives and objectivity" of three school commissioners, including Deschamps, who had voted to switch construction contracts from two firms to three other companies. The judge specifically criticized what he described as "the narrowness and the chauvinism" of Deschamps's motives.[5]