Cathy Wong to run for Plateau mayor
With Luc Rabouin aiming for the city mayoralty, Plateau borough will need a new mayor. Cathy Wong, who’s been out of the public eye for awhile, will be running for Projet Montréal there in November.
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DeWolf 18:51 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
Meanwhile, Soraya Martinez Ferrada: “Il y a un mécontentement général sur le Plateau Mont-Royal alors que Projet Montréal y est au pouvoir depuis plus d’une décennie.”
[Insert “o rly?” owl meme]
I’m not sure how Martinez expects to be elected if she’s going to run on bad vibes and nothing else.
Taylor C. Noakes 19:06 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
But it worked so well for Poilievre!
Orr 21:51 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
The idea that we would elect someone like Soraya Martinez Ferrada who to be honest appears to actually dislike Montreal does seem weird to me.
Nicholas 09:53 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
People have been pointing out in the NYC mayor’s election that certain candidates clearly love the city, and others clearly hate it. The people who love the city readily admit there are problems, but endeavour to fix them. It’s hard to run when you so clearly disdain a city and its people, especially when most of the people who agree with you did the obvious thing for them and moved to the suburbs or another city.
CE 13:11 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
IMO, the demergers were one of the best things to happen to Montreal because we avoided having a bunch of people who disdain the city voting in our elections. Ensemble is campaigning for those votes but a lot of the people who agree with them will be voting in Dorval or DDO.
Kate 14:26 on 2025-06-22 Permalink
If not Joliette!
Ian 07:45 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
OK so now that we have the “I love Montreal” bona fides out of the way, why Cathy Wong?
Anyone care to speculate?
CE 08:30 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
It’s an odd choice since she ran under Coderre when she was last in politics. She has experience and must be willing to toe the party line. Does Projet not have an internal voting mechanism among members to choose candidates? If so, it would seem that members liked what they saw.
Ian 09:49 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
“Does Projet not have an internal voting mechanism among members to choose candidates?”
I don’t know.
But hey, even Bergeron flipped for Team Coderre. Maybe they are more interchangeable than we thought.
CE 09:56 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
François Croteau was part of Vision before moving over to Projet. There’s definitely some movement between parties.
Ian 10:01 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Politicians being opportunistic? Say it ain’t so! /s
James 12:42 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Plateau voters must be a strange bunch to be simultaneously “mécontent” and vote for a PM sweep in the plateau. The lowest score was 65% & the highest was 81%. Has that much changed since 2021?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Montreal_municipal_election#Le_Plateau-Mont-Royal
Ian 13:35 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Lesser of evils.
Chris 14:10 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Or maybe most residents of the Plateau, Ian notwithstanding, actually like Project and their policies.
CE 16:36 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
I live in the Plateau and have been relatively happy with my elected representatives. This is not something I can say for other levels of government.
Ian 19:46 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Yeah that’s right, it’s just me that finds the glib smugness of Projet openly lying to your face annoying.
But let’s be real, Ferrada is worse than Rabouin by a long stretch.
Still, I find it interesting that nobody seems to have any good reason that we should vote for Cathy Wong other than behind the scenes Projet muckitymucks seem to like her.
Is this vibe voting?
CE 21:46 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
We’re still quite a while from the election and nobody really wants to think about it until the summer is over. I would hope that she’ll release some kind of platform, if not at least outline her priorities, along with the other candidates and people will make their decision.
Projet candidates have been receiving very large majorities for nearly two decades. Voters obviously like what’re doing and are willing to overlook the faults that the candidates/councillors have because they like the results.