Nicolas Tétrault is a politician and entrepreneur in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal City Council from 2001 to 2005, initially as a member of Vision Montreal (VM) and later for the rival Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). Tétrault has also sought election to the House of Commons of Canada and the National Assembly of Quebec. Tétrault has been active real estate mostly in the province of Quebec but also in New-Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta. He also owns majority control of a Montreal-based real estate agency, Royal Lepage du Quartier. Early political campaigns Tétrault sought election to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1994 Quebec provincial election as a Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate in the extremely safe Liberal seat of Robert-Baldwin in west-end Montreal. The youngest candidate in the province at nineteen years of age, he was a CEGEP student during the election. Although it was generally recognized that he had no chance of winning, Tétrault's campaign received a fair amount of media attention. Profiled by the Montreal Gazette in August 1994, he described himself as "the kind of nationalist who is open to discussion." He finished a distant second against Liberal Pierre Marsan on election day. Tétrault later ran as a Bloc Québécois (BQ) candidate in the Montreal-area riding of Brossard—La Prairie in the 2000 Canadian federal election. He was twenty-five years old during the campaign and operated his own marketing company. In an interview with the Gazette, he said that Canada should adopt a new model of politics and economics based on that of the European Community. He finished second against Liberal Party of Canada incumbent Jacques Saada. In 2002, Tétrault described the older wing of the Parti Québécois as having lost touch with modern Quebec. Two years later, he said that many people of his generation favoured "sovereignty if necessary but not necessarily sovereignty." City councillor Tétrault was elected to the Montreal city council in the 2001 municipal election as a Vision Montreal candidate in the Plateau-Mont-Royal division. During the campaign, he called for a speed limit reduction in the Plateau, increased security in parks and at metro stations, more co-op housing and support for local artists, and more parking spots for businesses. Vision Montreal lost the election to Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union, and Tétrault served as a member of the official opposition. By virtue of his city council position, he also