Career
He was re-elected in 1998. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favor of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost. In 2005, Julien ran against Lévesque for Mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote.
In the 2007 provincial election, Lévesque"s preference for ADQ candidate Sébastien Proulx was not formally announced, but was not a secret for most observers.
Proulx ended up winning. Recently, Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.
Yves Lévesque has been highly criticized by the public for aggressively promoting a forced fluoridation campaign on 134,000 citizens of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
