[2] She also helped to form a CLSC (centre local de services communautaires) in Mercier-Est and served on its board of directors.
[3] Boudreau first ran for city council in the 1982 municipal election and lost to Civic Party incumbent Luc Larivée.
Boudreau was forty-four years old at the time her election and, in a post-campaign interview, said that she would work for increased port facilities and green space along Montreal's land border with the St. Lawrence River.
[4] The MCM won a landslide majority in this election, and Boudreau served as a backbench supporter of Jean Doré's administration.
In 1991, she was one of twelve MCM councillors who announced their support for a group calling for a referendum on Quebec sovereignty.