Clive Doucet

Clive Doucet
Ottawa City Councillor
In office 2001–2010
Preceded by	Inez Berg
Succeeded by	David Chernushenko
Constituency	Capital Ward
Ottawa-Carleton Regional Councillor
In office 1997–2000
Preceded by	Brian McGarry
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Constituency	Capital Ward
Personal details
Born	1946 London, England
Spouse(s)	Pat Steenberg
Religion	Quaker

Clive Doucet (born 1946) is a Canadian writer and politician.

Doucet was born in 1946 in London, England to an Acadian serviceman from Grand Étang and an English war bride. Doucet grew up in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. He also spent some of his youth in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doucet was raised as a Catholic, and his mother was Protestant. He became a Quaker in 1980. He first came to Ottawa in his teens when his father worked there. Doucet played for the Carleton Ravens football team for one season, and then moved to the University of Toronto. A football injury took him out of that sport and into the sport of rowing. In his younger days, he spent a summer working in a rock copper mine in British Columbia and helped build the National Arts Centre as a construction worker. Before entering politics, Doucet was a municipal affairs policy advisor.

In the 1997 regional elections, Doucet ran for Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council in Capital Ward, which includes The Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East part of Riverview Park, Carleton University and Heron Park. He was an activist against the proposed Bronson Freeway, which propelled him to victory.

Central to his political platform has been the creation of a light rail rapid transit system across Ottawa manifested to date with the O-Train demonstration project (today's Trillium Line). On July 6, 2010, Doucet announced his candidacy for Mayor of Ottawa in the October 25 municipal election. Doucet joined a record number of 115 candidates running for municipal office in 2010, of which 15 challenged mayoral incumbent Larry O’Brien.

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