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Normand Dubé, the man who was convicted this year of sabotaging a large section of Hydro-Québec’s power grid, was sentenced on Monday to a seven-year prison term.

The decision on the sentence was delivered at the St-Jérôme courthouse by Quebec Court Judge Paul Chevalier. On Sept. 13, Chevalier found Dubé, the owner of an aviation company in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines and the designer of a small aircraft, guilty on three counts of mischief in three municipalities: Mirabel, Brownsburg-Chatham and Wentworth.

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Dubé used a small airplane Dec. 4, 2014, to short circuit two major power lines that are part of the network that brings electricity from northern Quebec to Montreal.

More than 180,000 customers, including the McGill University Health Centre and the Laval police, were left without power as Hydro-Québec tried to recover from a power surge generated by the short circuit. A Crown witness said the problem almost caused the entire network to shut down. His other two attempts failed to short circuit other power lines.