Gibeau has a college diploma from the Cégep Marie-Victorin in arts and letters (1976) and a diploma of the Association des courtiers d'assurances de la province de Québec (English: Insurance Brokers' Association of the Province of Quebec) from the Collège de Maisonneuve (1978). He has been employed with Les Assurances Gibeau Inc. since 1978 and has been its president since 1990.[3]
Gibeau was elected to the Montréal-Nord city council in a 1996 by-election, succeeding his father Réal Gibeau.[5] He was re-elected in the 1998 municipal election.[6]
Montreal city councillor
All municipalities on the Island of Montreal, including Montréal-Nord, were amalgamated into a single city on January 1, 2002. Gibeau was elected to the Montreal city council as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) in the anticipatory 2001 Montreal municipal election, winning one of three seats in the Montréal-Nord borough. Tremblay won the mayoral election, MICU won a majority of seats on council, and Gibeau served on council as a supporter of Tremblay's administration. He was re-elected in 2005 and 2009, on the latter occasion for Tremblay's renamed Union Montreal party.
Gibeau resigned from Union Montreal on May 3, 2013, after serious allegations of corruption were made about the party at the Charbonneau Commission.[7] The following month, he joined Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal.[8] He was Denis Coderre's co-listed candidate in the 2013 election and continued to serve on council when the Coderre/Gibeau ticket was elected in Gibeau's ward and Coderre was simultaneously elected as mayor.[9]
Gibeau was appointed as president of the Équipe Denis Coderre caucus following the election.[10] He was also appointed as an associate member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) with responsibility for resident services and worked in conjunction with Anie Samson, the councillor responsible for the file.[11]
^GIBEAU, Norman 1955 - 2016, Corporation des Thanatologues du Québec, accessed 24 August 2017. This site confirms that Réal Gibeau was Jean-Marc Gibeau's father.
^GIBEAU, Jean-Marc, Site du premier ministre du Québec, accessed 24 August 2017; Irwin Block, "Spite could cost Bourque," Montreal Gazette, 3 October 2001.
^Claude Giguère, "Gibeau quitte Union Montréal a son tour," Guide de Montréal-Nord, 7 May 2013.
^Had the Coderre/Gibeau been re-elected to council but Coderre not won the mayoral contest, Coderre would have had the option of taking Gibeau's council seat.
