Montgomery found guilty of ethical breaches
CDN-NDG mayor Sue Montgomery has been found guilty of 11 ethical breaches by the Quebec Municipal Commission. Leaping on this with glee, Lionel Perez is demanding she step down.
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Jack 15:47 on 2021-06-28 Permalink
Please remember the Quebec Municipal Commission are civil servants. They protect their own.
Kate 16:16 on 2021-06-28 Permalink
Excellent point, Jack. I don’t think the ruling means much, but Perez’s tendency is always to make hay – even when it makes no sense for a borough mayor to step down in the summer before the election.
Cadichon 10:00 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
I don’t believe anyone at CMQ was trying to help a Montreal civil servant somehow. There is really no such thing as solidarity between civil servants… Especially if they come from competing branches or level of government (like in this case).
Jack 11:48 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
Cadichon I disagree. I wrote this after the Superior Court Judgement.
The judge who decided in Montgomery ‘s favour confirmed something I already thought. “ À l’origine de toute cette affaire se trouvent les plaintes répétées d’Annalisa Harris concernant l’indifférence de Stéphane Plante lorsqu’elle lui demandait des documents ou de l’information. L’insistance de la directrice de cabinet a été perçue comme du harcèlement psychologique par le directeur de l’arrondissement. “ I have to say this pisses me off and shows how many of these entrenched bureaucracies have contempt for the elected, which in essence is us.
Cadichon 12:43 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
I really have no idea if there was harassment or not happening at CDN-NDG, my only point was that I don’t see the CMQ “protecting their own” there because they wouldn’t consider a Montreal borough manager “their own”.
Also, checked CMQ’s members bios, and it’s really a bunch of senior lawyers from the municipal world, with an ex Affaires municipales chief of staff acting as president. Not many civil servants sitting there actually.
Jack 13:49 on 2021-06-30 Permalink
Thanks for responding and I take your point. I still believe that as employees of the Quebec Government they are career civil servants with very strict understandings of their roles and privileges. This is the bio of the president,”Monsieur Marois occupe depuis 1994 diverses fonctions au sein du gouvernement du Québec et de la fonction publique québécoise.”