Recounts and the executive committee
It’s linked just below in a comment, but the story is important enough that I’m posting it again up top: Gracia Kasoki Katahwa is confirmed as mayor of CDN-NDG. Despina Sourias, also from Projet, has also been confirmed as councillor for Loyola district.
The city has a new executive committee of 14 members and four associate members – 12 women and six men. Dominique Ollivier is the chairman of the committee, and Eric Alan Caldwell replaces Philippe Schnobb at the head of the STM. The rest of the positions are listed in this item.
walkerp 10:07 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
She seems quite promising. Now let’s see how she deals with the entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy in NDG-CDN.
Kate 11:30 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
I do hope Katahwa sits down with Plante and talks through whatever issues Sue Montgomery had, so’s to get a picture of that situation. I hate to say it, but Plante seemed to think Montgomery should have learned to live with it, work around it, and not attempt to change it. Whether that was the best thing for the many residents of that borough seems doubtful.
Ian 11:32 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
Well I guess condos are going up in the old theatre after all. Just be sure not to ask to actually see any of the “studies”, it’s business as usual in NDG.
carswell 12:54 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
@Ian Super glad to be rid of Perez but it’s almost a given that one of the main reasons Projet parachuted in an unknown (to locals), non-resident, novice politician with no connection to the borough other than as a place she occasionally travelled to to work as a nurse was precisely because she would do what she was told to and not create friction with the borough’s functionaries, who rank among the most uncaring, unhelpful government employees I’ve encountered, or “head office.”
In the last days of her campaign and much to her credit, Montgomery said something I never expected to hear coming out of the mouth of any CDN-NDG elected official: that the borough should be split in two. We can probably kiss that enlightened idea good-bye too.
walkerp 13:38 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
I’m confused because people keep saying that Lionel Perez was the long-running mayor of CDN-NDG but wasn’t that the role Sue Montgomery had?
Mark Côté 13:40 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
Indeed, he was only a (long-serving) city councillor; however, he was the interim lead of Ensemble, so his utterances were splashed all across the news for the last few years.
Mark Côté 13:41 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
And now that he lost the mayoral race and a different (Ensemble) person won his district, I’m guessing that means he’s out of politics, for now at least.
Ian 18:39 on 2021-11-25 Permalink
One can only hope. It’s like his only role was to be a naysayer. Regardless of the corrupt borough functionaries and all the Montgomery vs Plante drama it’s good to see a fresh face and I wish Katahwa best of luck. This last term was an exercise in reductio ad absurdum stubborness from everyone concerned.