More on Coderre’s book

Sylvain Ouellet, Projet councillor for St-Michel, takes his turn at dissecting Denis Coderre’s book. It’s worth persisting with any annoyances from Facebook to read this piece, because Ouellet notes some odd signs of group writing or careless editing: sections of text repeated in several places, but also outright contradictions, such as praising the René-Lévesque REM in one section, then suggesting elsewhere that the elevated train should run along de la Commune.

Read that again: Coderre wants the REM to run right through Old Montreal, while talking up heritage on other pages!

Ouellet also notices in Coderre a lack of interest in the texture of daily life in Montreal – we knew that, but Coderre doesn’t even think he has to pretend any interest in nature parks or libraries. He really does just want to boost the city to a level where he can hobnob with celebrities. He always has and he always will.

Coderre’s expected to announce his candidacy Sunday evening, which probably means on TLMEP. The show was supposed to also have Geneviève Guilbault on, but she’s now in preventive isolation after her husband tested positive with Covid.

Update: Global simply says Coderre has already announced.