Peter Francis Trent CQ (born 5 January 1946) is an English-born Canadian businessman and politician.

[3] In 1972, he started his own company (with Raymond Charlebois), PBI/Plastibeton Inc. which he would later sell in 1989 to Shell Oil and Lone Star Industries.

[1] He owns the licenses to many worldwide patents, which supplies him with a significant revenue stream, and this has allowed Trent to devote himself to public service.

[citation needed] Trent's book about the merger-demerger period in Montreal, The Merger Delusion was published in the fall of 2012 by McGill-Queen's University Press.

[5] He planned to present ideas in the last book that would be the foundation for a debate starting in 2013 about governing the Montreal region.