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Kate 20:44 on 2020-04-24 Permalink Reply  

• dwgs 21:44 on 2020-04-24 Permalink

  Well I guess we know who really runs the borough. M. Plante gets what M. Plante wants.

• Kate 22:23 on 2020-04-24 Permalink

  I get a sense that Sue Montgomery ran smack into a solidly embedded bureaucracy in that borough, and when she refused to merely act as a figurehead and rubber stamp for longstanding attitudes and procedures (whether they were corrupt from Applebaum’s time, or simply lifer fonctionnaires with no intention of changing their ways, I don’t know) it caused big drama.

  The question is why Projet sided with the bureaucracy against their own mayor. The whole story has not been told, and I don’t know whether journalists have not ferreted it out yet, or whether they know but are constrained from telling the story by legal concerns.

• Feliza 00:01 on 2020-04-25 Permalink

  Those bureaucrats, in turn, consider Montgomery lazy and incompetent who has neither the will, experience or ability grasp of the complexities involved in doing her job well. They feel she is oblivious and uncaring about their difficulties in administering a uniquely large population with massive cultural and political diversity. The obvious solution is to split the borough into its two natural components, as should have been done a long time ago.

• Kate 09:47 on 2020-04-25 Permalink

  Feliza, you’re hinting as if you’re someone who knows the inside story. I have no opinion on it, because I don’t know.

  But you’re not the first person to point out that NDG and Côte-des-Neiges are distinct areas with different needs. I tend to agree that they should never have been forced under the same administrative umbrella. It was one of the decisions made during the demerger mess, and I’m not even sure who to blame it on, but somebody ought to step up, admit it was a bad idea, and fix it.