[6] Vision Montreal won a majority government in this election, and Beauregard initially served as a backbench supporter of the Bourque administration on council.
In late November 1994, she was appointed to chair the Montreal Urban Community's public security committee, which was responsible for overseeing police services.
[8] In April 1995, Beauregard criticized a group of Montreal officers for having taken pictures of nine black students from the Little Burgundy neighbourhood for use in police lineups without having sought parental permission.
[13] Beauregard was appointed as an associate member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) on February 6, 1997, with responsibility for cultural relations.
[17] In March 2000, Beauregard and fellow Vision councillor Sonya Biddle accompanied Bourque on a somewhat controversial trip to Trinidad and Tobago.
City officials contended that the trip was intended as research on the organization of summer carnivals, while critics alleged it was simply a junket undertaken for political purposes.
[21] She also launched a lawsuit against Bourque, charging him with reneging on an oral contract to pay her $57,000 per year as an assistant; she lost the case in a January 2006 ruling.
[22] Beauregard ran as a Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate in Bourassa-Sauvé in the 2003 Quebec provincial election and finished a distant second against Liberal Line Beauchamp.
Beauregard contested the 2005 Montreal municipal election as an independent candidate for council against Pierre Bourque; she finished third, after a campaign that she described as the nastiest of her career.