Frantz Benjamin

• Name — Frantz Benjamin • Honorific Suffix — MNA • Birthplace — Port-au-Prince, Haiti • Office1 — Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Viau • Term Start1 — October 1, 2018 • Predecessor1 — David Heurtel • Office2 — Montreal City Councillor for Saint-Michel • Term Start2 — November 1, 2009 • Term End2 — October 15, 2018 • Predecessor2 — Soraya Martinez Ferrada • Successor2 — Josué Corvil • Office3 — Speaker of Montreal City Council • Country3 — Canada • Constituency3 — Saint-Michel • Predecessor3 — Harout Chitilian • Successor3 — Cathy Wong • Term Start3 — 2013 • Term End3 — 2017 • Party — Quebec Liberal Party • Other Party — Union Montreal (2009-2012) Independent (2012-2013) Ensemble Montréal (2013-present)

Benjamin was a member of the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île from 1998 to 2012. Benjamin was first elected to the Montreal City Council in 2009 defeating incumbent city councillor Soraya Martinez Ferrada. Benjamin formerly served as a member of Montreal City Council and the chairman (Speaker) of the city council, representing the district of Saint-Michel in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. He was also the first black person to be speaker of the city council. Formerly associated with the Union Montreal political party, he resigned on October 30, 2012, in protest against the allegations of corruption surrounding mayor Gérald Tremblay at the Charbonneau commission hearings. He sat as an independent councillor until June 2013, when he reaffiliated with the new Équipe Denis Coderre.

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• Valkanday: pwezi, Montréal, Éditions Paroles. 2000, 48 p. • Chants de mémoire, Montréal, Éditions Paroles, 2003. • Dits d'errance, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2004, 67 p. • Montréal vu par ses poètes (with Rodney Saint-Éloi). Montréal. Mémoire d'encrier, 2006. • Lettres d'automne / Tanlapli. Montréal, Éditions Paroles, 2007. • Mémoire d'encrier, Octobre 4 2010 • Le Saint-Michel des Haïtiens: perspectives sur la trajectoire de la communauté haïtienne du Québec dans un quartier de Montréal, Montréal, Les Éditions du CIDIHCA, 2012, 186 p. • Une femme à la mer, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2016, • Nuit des anses pleines, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2021, 58 p.