{"id":1143,"date":"2014-04-09T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/liberals-retake-laval-des-rapides\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:12","slug":"liberals-retake-laval-des-rapides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/liberals-retake-laval-des-rapides\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals retake Laval des Rapides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Rhonda Massad<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 P\u00e9quiste\u2019s L\u00e9o Bureau-Blouin, a student activist who only served only 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>Polo took the victory winning 42.82 per cent of the vote, 11 per cent more than his closest opponent Bureau-Blouin. <\/p>\n<p><i>Coalition pour l\u2019avenir du Qu\u00e9bec<\/i> candidate Vincent Bolduc trailed with 17.64 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Quebec solidaire hopeful Nicolas Chatel-Launay got 5 5.9 per cent and the Green Party\u2019s L\u00e9o McKenna had receive 1.3 per cent, by the time that <i>The Suburban<\/i> went to press. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting involved is a way my way to give back,\u201d Polo told <i>The Suburban<\/i> in an interview.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Polo came here from Columbia when he was six, and speaks fluent Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, as well as commanding both Canada\u2019s official langauges. <\/p>\n<p>He earned two graduate diplomas at McGill after completing a finance degree at University of Montreal\u2019s prestigious <i>\u00c9cole des hautes etudes commerciales,<\/i> 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. <\/p>\n<p>He is also a supporter of the association for the protection of the Sainte Doroth\u00e9e woods and actively involved in amateur soccer in Laval.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/140319-Saul-Polo-692x1024.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/140319-Saul-Polo-692x1024.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b>Saul Polo<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><i>(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 P\u00e9quiste\u2019s L\u00e9o 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberals retake Laval des Rapides - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/liberals-retake-laval-des-rapides\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberals retake Laval des Rapides - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Rhonda Massad www.thesuburban.com Laval des Rapides voters elected Quebec-Latin America Chamber of Commerce ceo Saul Polo, Monday night. 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