Olivier Demers-Dubé

My name is Olivier Demers-Dubé. I have been an entrepreneur and environmental professional for nearly 15 years—and a lifelong passionate advocate for change. I am deeply motivated by the opportunity to represent the Vieux-Rosemont district as City Councillor with Projet Montréal in the upcoming municipal elections.

Throughout my career, I have worked to design, develop, and sustain more than a hundred solutions, projects, and innovations in food security, innovation, and technologies for climate change adaptation in our agriculture and environment.

With my organization (ÉAU), the projects we led were all designed to build circular-economy food production systems and to ensure they were developed—through broad citizen and stakeholder consultations—with and for community groups, entrepreneurs, farmers, and First Nations partners.

As Director of Innovation Programs at Zone Agtech, I had the privilege of assessing the relevance, impact, and profitability of dozens of projects, programs, and technologies on behalf of public, semi-public, and private clients such as MEIE, MAPAQ, MAMH, Hydro-Québec, Sobeys, Cascades, and the Canadian Space Agency.

For over a decade, I have coordinated multidisciplinary teams to deliver ambitious and varied projects. I have led the creation of conferences and training initiatives in schools and universities, directed the teams behind rooftop greenhouse construction, and guided governance teams in developing two national technology strategies for climate change adaptation in Quebec’s horticulture sector.

Each professional project has required navigating a wide range of stakeholders, constraints, and contexts—often in direct connection with municipal dynamics—where the balance between vision, implementation, and public acceptability is constantly in motion.

Today, more than anything, I want to invest myself in my Rose-Patrie community and put my time, energy, and expertise at the service of projects focused on socio-ecological transition, local economic development, and the collective fight against the housing crisis and homelessness. I firmly believe that improving quality of life begins in our municipalities.

After nearly 15 years in social entrepreneurship and technological innovation to support food security, food autonomy, and the economic development of Quebec communities, I see the city as the next great meeting point for the defining challenges of our time.

In the years ahead, municipal elected officials will face the crucial task of evolving the role, structures, and tools of cities to respond to citizens’ rights and quality of life, to the international appeal of our metropolis, and to the growing challenges—if not crises—that threaten these ambitions.

It is essential that Montreal can count on as many districts, boroughs, and elected officials as possible who are aware of these challenges and ready to commit at the level these transformations demand.

If elected, I want to:

Accelerate the socio-ecological transition (mobility, biodiversity, food, housing) as a driver of quality of life for Montrealers.

Position entrepreneurship and local economic development as pillars of neighborhood vitality.

Give more power and governance tools directly to citizens through a reimagined participatory democracy built by and for residents.

Promote leadership rooted in vision, action, and empathy.

Montréal DNA

Olivier’s family roots in Montreal go back to his grandparents:

One was baptized at St-Jean-Berchmans (Rosemont) in 1933 and worked as a foreman on the Olympic Stadium construction site.

The other worked for more than 50 years at the STM and was one of the first metro drivers in Montreal in the 1960s.

For him, Montreal is quite literally coded into his family’s DNA.