The pressure was too strong: the number 2 of the Plante administration, Dominique Ollivier, will resign this afternoon, it was confirmed The Press.
She will make the announcement at 3 p.m. at Montreal city hall. The mayor of Montreal will then speak at 4 p.m.
Mme Ollivier was at the center of a controversy surrounding her travel and restaurant expenses when she headed the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM), between 2014 and 2021. A $347 oyster dinner for two people in a Parisian restaurant had particularly left their mark. The expenses were revealed by Quebecor media.
With barely fifteen employees, the OCPM is the City of Montreal service that costs the most in representation expenses. The organization’s staff visited Spain, Mexico, Brazil, England, Tunisia, Morocco, Australia, Switzerland, Ivory Coast and Mozambique.
Last week, Mme Ollivier admitted that citizens’ confidence was shaken following these revelations. “It is not because expenses are legal and permitted that they are acceptable,” according to the president of the executive committee. “I particularly regret that certain expenses affect the population’s feeling of confidence and I am the first to say that things must change within the OCPM. »
As president of the executive committee, Dominique Ollivier was to present the City of Montreal’s budget on Wednesday. We don’t yet know who will take his place.
Born in Haiti in 1964, Mme Ollivier has a background in engineering and a master’s degree in public administration from the National School of Public Administration, according to his political party’s website. She was a long-time activist in the Parti Québécois and worked in the PQ and Bloc cabinets before arriving on the municipal scene. She was president of the OCPM from 2014 to 2021.