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Nicolas Tétrault is a politician and entrepreneur in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal City Council from 2001 to 2005, initially as a member of Vision Montreal (VM) and later for the rival Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). Tétrault has also sought election to the Canadian House of Commons and the National Assembly of Quebec. Tétrault has been active real estate mostly in the province of Quebec but also in New-Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta. He also owns majority control of a Montreal based real estate agency, Royal Lepage du Quartier. He is currently a partner in Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media, a company which has received two new licenses for talk radio stations in Montreal, 600 AM (English) and 940 AM (French) from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which are expected to launch by the end 2013. In June of 2013, the CRTC granted TTP Media with a third frequency, 850 AM in the French sport's talk format for Greater Montreal. ==Early political campaigns== Tétrault sought election to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1994 Quebec provincial election as a Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate in the extremely safe Liberal seat of Robert-Baldwin in west-end Montreal. The youngest candidate in the province at nineteen years of age, he was a CEGEP student during the election.〔"Elkas wins Liberal nod in Robert Baldwin," ''Montreal Gazette'', 7 April 1994, E8; Anne Sutherland, "Liberals run parachuted star in Robert Baldwin stronghold," ''Montreal Gazette'', 1 September 1994, A9.〕 Although it was generally recognized that he had no chance of winning, Tétrault's campaign received a fair amount of media attention.〔See for instance "PQ names candidates," ''Montreal Gazette'', 21 April 1994, H7 and "Parti Quebecois Prepares for Victory," Saturday Report - CBC Television, 7 May 1994.〕 Profiled by the ''Montreal Gazette'' in August 1994, he described himself as "the kind of nationalist who is open to discussion."〔Lisa Fitterman, "Teen candidate thinks of putting it all down in writing," ''Montreal Gazette'', 13 August 1994, A10.〕 He finished a distant second against Liberal Pierre Marsan on election day. Tétrault later ran as a Bloc Québécois (BQ) candidate in the Montreal-area riding of Brossard—La Prairie in the 2000 Canadian federal election. He was twenty-five years old during the campaign and operated his own marketing company.〔Debbie Parkes, "Liberal Saada holds edge over Bloc," ''Montreal Gazette'', 28 November 2000, B11.〕 In an interview with the ''Gazette'', he said that Canada should adopt a new model of politics and economics based on that of the European Community.〔Nicolas Van Praet, "Conservatives are wild cards: Liberals, BQ square off in 2 South Shore ridings where Tory voters could tip balance," ''Montreal Gazette'', 13 November 2000, A12.〕 He finished second against Liberal Party of Canada incumbent Jacques Saada. In 2002, Tétrault described the older wing of the Parti Québécois as having lost touch with modern Quebec.〔Philip Authier, "Playing politics at young age," ''Montreal Gazette'', 3 January 2002, A10.〕 Two years later, he said that many people of his generation favoured "sovereignty if necessary but not necessarily sovereignty."〔Philip Authier, Kevin Dougherty and Mike De Souza, "Report stings - but Landry 'delighted': Young MNAs tell PQ to get with the times," ''Montreal Gazette'', 24 September 2004, A1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicolas Tétrault」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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