Jean Doré

Jean Doré (; 12 December 1944 – 15 June 2015) was a Canadian politician and mayor of the City of Montreal, Quebec.

Background Doré studied law at the Université de Montréal, where he was president of the student union from 1967 to 1968. He received a Master's Degree of Political Science from McGill University. In the early seventies Doré became a founding member of the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM), also known as Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM) in French, where he started as treasurer and eventually became party leader in 1982.

Attempt at a comeback

Doré tried to make a political comeback in 1998. He founded Équipe Montréal (Team Montreal), a new party, and ran for mayor. However, he gathered only 10% of the vote and finished fourth. Two candidates of TM were elected to the city council, but they eventually sat as Independents, and the party ceased to exist shortly before the 2001 election.

Post politics

Doré left public life and became senior director of business development for the central Caisse Desjardins.

Health In 2014, Doré announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died on 15 June 2015.