By Rhonda Massad
www.thesuburban.com
Laval des Rapides voters elected Quebec-Latin America Chamber of Commerce ceo Saul Polo, Monday night. Polo takes back the riding for the Liberals from the Péquiste’s Léo Bureau-Blouin, a student activist who only served only 18 months.
Polo took the victory winning 42.82 per cent of the vote, 11 per cent more than his closest opponent Bureau-Blouin.
Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec candidate Vincent Bolduc trailed with 17.64 per cent.
Quebec solidaire hopeful Nicolas Chatel-Launay got 5 5.9 per cent and the Green Party’s Léo McKenna had receive 1.3 per cent, by the time that The Suburban went to press.
“Getting involved is a way my way to give back,” Polo told The Suburban in an interview.
Polo came here from Columbia when he was six, and speaks fluent Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, as well as commanding both Canada’s official langauges.
He earned two graduate diplomas at McGill after completing a finance degree at University of Montreal’s prestigious École des hautes etudes commerciales, and began his career dealing with brokerage firms on behalf of CIBC and Laurentian Bank. Polo went on to co-found the Quebec-Latin America Chamber of commerce in 2007.
He is also a supporter of the association for the protection of the Sainte Dorothée woods and actively involved in amateur soccer in Laval.
