placed second behind incumbent mayor Jim Watson who he had also lost to in 2010. He won 22% of the vote. Doucet announced he will be running for the Green Party of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election in the riding of Cape Breton—Canso, the riding of his secondary residence of Grand Étang, Nova Scotia. Publications Throughout his career, Doucet has been a writer of novels, poetry, plays, and non-fiction, often writing about his Acadian roots. His most recent book, Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, was published by New Society Publishers in 2007. In its review, The Walrus wrote "When Doucet speaks from the firm ground of experience as city councillor, his sharply logical solutions to municipal problems seem both hopeful and achievable." Fiction Disneyland Please, novel, 1978, shortlisted for the W.H. Smith First Novel Award John Coe's War, novel, 1983 Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, novel, 1990 The Priest's Boy, linked short stories, 1992 Non-fiction My Grandfather's Cape Breton, originally 1980, republished in 2003 – a memoir of summer boyhood visits to his grandfather on the family farm on Cape Breton Island in the 1960s. Lost and Found in Acadie (2004), a meditation on Acadian history, the Great Expulsion of 1755 and his visit to the Second Acadian World Congress in Louisiana in 1999. Notes from Exile, 1999 – profiles his visit to the 1994 First Acadian World Congress in New Brunswick. Acadian Memories, 2005 – collaboration with photographer Francois Gaudet, a coffee table book keepsake of the Third Acadian World Congress held in Ste Anne, Nova Scotia in 2004. Poetry Before Star Wars, 1981 Debris of Planets, 1993 Looking for Henry, 1999 – an epic poem meditating on the deportation of Acadians in 1755 contrasted to the defeat of the Metis Nation in 1885, and how the victors get to write history. Canal Seasons, 2003 Plays Hatching Eggs, National Arts Centre, 1976 A Very Desirable Residence, Penguin Performance Company, 1978 Chicken Delight, CBC Playhouse (radio), 1978 May the Best Man Win The Chez Lucien is Dead (with Wayne Rostad) Electoral record Federal Municipal Mayoral City Councillor References External links Official site 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male poets 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian male novelists Acadian people Acadian history Writers from Ottawa Ottawa city councillors Living people Université de Montréal alumni University of