In 2018, the CAQ promised to change the Montreal Metropolitain Community balance to give more weight to the suburbs and less to Montreal. Now it’s done, with Montreal losing its majority in favour of towns where CAQ supporters tend to live. Mayor Plante is not thrilled and also points out that, in her time as mayor, she has never used the majority to dominate decisions made by the CMM.
Thursday, Maxime Bergeron in La Presse dissects the premise of this change: the CAQ based its claim that demographic changes meant the suburbs were now more populous than the city on eligible voters, not residents. Bergeron does not go so far as to point out that it blatantly rewards CAQ voters in the suburbs – but it does.
Nicholas 16:25 on 2025-05-21 Permalink
Well I think it’s great that the provincial government has come out in support of the principle that the voting power of a region in a legislative body should be equivalent to its demographic weight, and am sure they will support that principle being applied to provincial and federal elections any day now.