Many parties form toward city elections
A lot of parties, some confined to a single borough, some intended to be city-wide, are getting launched toward the November election. Mario Girard has a column about all these parties, but is the question of giving boroughs more powers really uppermost in Montrealers’ minds this year?
NDG07 09:00 on 2021-03-22 Permalink
I don’t really want my borough to have more power as an end in itself, but it that’s the only way we can get our fair share of city spending on services and infrastructure then I’ll vote for a borough party. Cote-des-Neiges Notre-Dame-de-Grace has been shortchanged by the city for years and electing Projet Montreal at the borough level when they also controlled city hall didn’t seem to help. A lot of people don’t like Projet Montreal, but I think even more are progressive but feel let down by the current administration.
Ephraim 13:04 on 2021-03-22 Permalink
The problem with centralization is that sometimes what’s good for one area, isn’t for another. Just as one example… wheelie bins might work in Cartierville, but not Ville-Marie, where no one has a way to store them. Which might mean that it’s cheaper to collect garbage in Cartierville with driver-only garbage collection and impossible to do in Ville-Marie.