Jean-Guy Levesque says he often worked 75 or 80 hours a week attending meetings and fulfilling other civic commitments.
Jean-Guy Levesque’s term was to continue until municipal elections in May 2026.
Victoria Walton · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 04, 2025 3:37 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Jean-Guy Levesque served as a councillor and mayor of Atholville before he became mayor of the amalgamated city of Campbellton in 2023. (Charles-Étienne Drouin/Radio-Canada)
The mayor of Campbellton has announced he’s stepping down before his term ends.
Jean-Guy Levesque has been mayor since 2023.
Before this, he served as mayor of Atholville from 2021 to 2023, before the village amalgamated with Campbellton, and as deputy mayor of Atholville from 2015 to 2021.
“It’s hard, and I don’t just don’t have anymore the energy and the passion, if I could say, to be sitting in the mayor’s chair,” Levesque said in an interview Tuesday.
Levesque will continue in the job until next Friday, when Deputy Mayor Luc Couturier will act as mayor.
“There’s a lot of files that I want to make sure that he’s OK, he understands and all that,” Levesque said.
The demands of the job, especially since amalgamation, are his main reason for resigning, he said.
“At the end of this summer,
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