Board and committees

Yvan Duceppe was elected to the CSN treasury in January 2021 at its 66^th Congress. A long-time activist, he was elected to the treasury of the CSN’s Fédération des professionnèles in 2000. Mr. Duceppe graduated from the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal in Business Administration, with a concentration in Public Accounting and Finance. In addition, he holds the professional title of CPA. Since 1991, he has held the position of Finance and Administration Advisor at MCE Conseils. He has sat since 2007 as an external member of the Board of Directors on Bâtirente’s audit committee before becoming it’s Chair in 2021.

Hélène Jacques is a corporate director and strategic consultant with over 30 years’ experience in the financial sector, particularly related to institutional investment. She has held several strategic management positions at the Mouvement Desjardins and at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. In addition to an MBA in Finance and Marketing, and a BBA in Finance and Information Systems from HEC Montréal, Ms. Jacques also holds the title of Certified Corporate Director (Administratrice de société certifiée (ASC)) from Université Laval’s Collège des administrateurs de sociétés, where she completed her graduate studies in climate change. She has more than 10 years of board experience and is currently a board and committee member for a number of companies in the financial sector.

An Economist by training, Normand Brouillet held several positions within the CSN between 1976 and 2009, including Assistant to the CSN Executive Committee, Union Advisor with the Fédération des employées et employés de services publics (FEESP-CSN) and with the Fédération des travailleuses et des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt (FTPF-CSN), as well as Co-ordinator and Senior Negotiator for major rounds of public sector collective bargaining. Mr. Brouillet has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Coopérative des techniciens ambulanciers de la Montérégie (CETAM) since 2001. He also sits on the Board of Directors and on the Executive and Human Resources Committee of SSQ, Life Insurance Company Inc., as well as on the Board of Directors of SSQ, Mutual Management Corporation. A CSN delegate to the 2007 Kenya World Social Forum, he subsequently worked on the committee that organized the first Québec Social Forum, also held in 2007. Mr. Brouillet was appointed to the Bâtirente Board of Directors in 2010 and was reelected as a board member at the 2024 annual general meeting.

Éric Filion has served as Bâtirente’s Chief Executive Officer since October 2021. He joined the organization in 2016 as Chief Operating Officer. Éric’s career includes over 25 years’ experience in the financial field, 20 of which at one of Québec’s largest financial institutions, where he held several strategic roles in personal insurance as well as in the pensions sector. He has a Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Statistics from Université de Montréal and is a Fellow of both the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries.

Christian Cyr is coordinator of the Comité intersectoriel du secteur privé of the CSN. Become union representative with the CSN in 1998, Mr. Cyr worked with resource sector unions, manufacturing, food processing and trade. He was a director of Question Retraite and sits on the Board of MCE Councils since 2012. Mr. Cyr was reelected as a Board Member at the 2022 annual general meeting.

Nicolas Docquier is delegate of the Syndicat national des employés du papier Candiac. He has been involved at various levels in his organization for almost 7 years. He has been a member of the Occupational Health and Safety Committee and has been a trainer since 2015. Mr. Docquier was reelected as a Board Member at the 2022 annual general meeting for a second term.

Robert Gariépy has been involved since 2004 in the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de Distribution Multi-Marques Laval (CSN) union as a delegate. He has also been Secretary of the Executive since 2010 and a Bâtirente Group Representative since 2012. Mr. Gariépy was reelected as a Board Member at the 2024 annual general meeting.

Sylvain Grenier has been a labour union activist for the past 24 years. Mr. Grenier is Treasurer of the Fédération de l’industrie manufacturière (FIM-CSN). He is President of the Sonaca Montréal union in Mirabel, a role he has held since 2003. For six years, he was also a member of the Conseil central des Laurentides’ oversight committee. Mr. Grenier was elected for his first term as group representative during the 2023 annual general meeting.

Jonathan Paradis Lapointe has been active for over 10 years in the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs du groupe PJC entrepôt union. With a number of positions under his belt, he was recently elected Vice-President, Health & Safety. Mr. Paradis Lapointe’s election as group representative, for a first term, came during the 2023 annual general meeting.

Since 1985, Pierre Leduc has carried out several functions in the Syndicat national des produits chimiques de Valleyfield (CSN) including the position of Bâtirente Group Representative. He was reelected as a Board Member at the 2022 annual general meeting.

Simon Mathieu Malenfant has been active in the union sector for close to 20 years. As an SAQ employee, he became involved in the Syndicat des employés de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ (SEMB-SAQ) union around the year 2000 and was in charge of labour relations within the executive committee. Mr. Malenfant was elected Vice-President, Treasury, for the Fédération des employées et employés de services publics (FEESP-CSN) in June 2021 and was reelected  as Bâtirente’s board as the CSN-designated representative (Category A) in 2024.

Serge Monette has been vice-president of the Fédération du commerce (CSN) since 2021. In 2007, he became secretary of his union (Sysco Grand Montréal-CSN) for 3 years before assuming its presidency for 10 years. He has worked in food distribution and is a truck driver by trade. He has experience as a Bâtirente group representative. Mr. Monette was appointed to Bâtirente’s board as the CSN-designated representative (Category A) in October 2023 and is a member of the Member Services Committee.

Guy A. Coulombe received a bachelor’s degree in accounting sciences in 1991. He has extensive experience in providing professional services such as the development of financing solutions, financial and organizational analysis, drafting of business plans, and corporate and policy interventions, including advisory services for collective agreement negotiations. Since 2010, he has been a finance and administration consultant at MCE Conseils. In 2021, he accepted the role of external member of the board of directors of Bâtirente.

Richard Fortier is an experienced manager who worked for over 40 years in companies administering every type of group savings plans. A trained actuary, he is also a CFA charterholder and a graduate from the Institute of Corporate Directors. Recently retired, he is contributing as a director or a committee member to four enterprises whose mission is closely linked to customer service. In the course of his career, he held a great variety of positions, including that of chief executive of a major Québec insurance company. He has been sharing his expertise with Bâtirente as an external member of the board of directors since 2014.