Larivée worked at his family's roofing firm in private life.[1] He first ran for a seat on city council in the 1974 municipal election and was defeated in the second Saint-Jacques ward. He was elected in the 1978 municipal election, in which the Civic Party won a landslide majority, and served for the next four years as a backbench supporter of mayor Jean Drapeau's administration. He was defeated by Robert Perreault of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the 1982 election.
Larivée intended to run as a Civic Party candidate again in the 1986 municipal election but was denied the nomination.[2] He later briefly affiliated with the party,[3] but ultimately chose to run as an independent. He finished a distant third.
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party affiliations are taken from the Montreal Star, 11 November 1974, A11.
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^Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.
^Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.
^"New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.