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Luc Ferrandez

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3264818
Source-derived summary

Luc Ferrandez is a Canadian politician. He was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is a member of the Projet Montréal municipal political party.

Education and early career

Ferrandez pursued doctoral studies in economic policies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He holds an MA and a BA in political science from Université du Québec à Montréal.

He previously served as director of communications for CAE Inc., as a senior communications advisor at Hydro-Québec and was a senior researcher in environmental matters for the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Most recently, he worked as a management consultant. He was the host of the public television show "Bozéjeunnnes" on Radio-Québec in the early 1980s.

Borough mayor

As borough mayor of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Ferrandez reduced snow removal services.

Editorial summary

“Luc Ferrandez” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ferrandez, Canadian and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2009, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-08-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ferrandez, Canadian and politician.
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“Luc Ferrandez” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ferrandez, Canadian and politician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3264818. VIAF identifies the subject as 105187367. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2009 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Luc Ferrandez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.