Second-in-command manager at embattled OCPM is out of a job

The Office de consultation publique de Montréal won’t say whether Guy Grenier resigned or was fired.

Published Feb 07, 2024 • 2 minute read

“As of Feb. 5, (Guy) Grenier is no longer employed by the OCPM,” a spokesperson for the municipal public consultation office said in a statement Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Photo: OCPM

Guy Grenier, the No. 2 manager at the city’s Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM), is out of a job.

“As of Feb. 5, Mr. Grenier is no longer employed by the OCPM,” Gabriel Martre-Dufour, a spokesperson for the municipal public consultation office, said in a statement Wednesday.

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The OCPM won’t say whether Grenier resigned or was fired as secretary-general.

Grenier’s direct phone line at the OCPM was no longer in service on Wednesday and he could not be reached for comment.

Grenier’s departure came two weeks to the day after Philippe Bourke, the interim OCPM president who was appointed by city council in December, started his job.

Bourke has been given a six-month mandate to restore order at the OCPM after an expense scandal in November led council to fire president Isabelle Beaulieu and order an audit of the independent office, which is fully funded by the city.

Mayor Valérie Plante had called for the dismissal of Beaulieu and Grenier over the scandal. However, under the city charter, the secretary-general of the OCPM is accountable only to the OCPM president and cannot be fired by city council.

“The presidency is considering the next steps and a person loaned by the city is taking over in the interim,” Martre-Dufour said of the vacant secretary-general position.

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Following the revelations that past and present OCPM managers had expensed costly equipment, trips and dinners to the city for years, city council’s finance committee heard from Beaulieu and her predecessor as president, Dominique Ollivier, that jobs at the OCPM were generally never posted.

Ollivier, who resigned as OCPM president in 2021 to run for a city council seat with Plante’s Projet Montréal party, stepped down as chairperson of the city executive committee in the wake of the OCPM expense scandal.

On Friday, Ollivier filed a $1.7-million lawsuit against the Québecor-owned media companies that revealed the expensive items that had been charged to municipal taxpayers by the OCPM’s managers since 2014.

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