Leslie Roberts to run for Ensemble
Ensemble is clearly busy recruiting people with name recognition. The radio journalist Leslie Roberts will be running in Peter‑McGill.
Ten years ago, Roberts was forced to resign from Global after it became known that he was a part owner of a PR company whose clients appeared on Global News programs because of the link with Roberts’ company. I suppose he wasn’t aware of the rules – just as Martinez Ferrada wasn’t aware of the rule that landlords can’t demand a deposit.
People unclear on the ethics. Great way to start a campaign.
DeWolf 01:08 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
Anti-bike, anti-trans, pro-genocide. All on top of his apparent struggle with the notion of ethics.
MarcG 07:15 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
Leslie Roberts having a show on CJAD tells me everything I need to know.
There was a party leaders debate last night with Sauvé, Rabouin, and Martinez Ferrada. I didn’t investigate what rules they applied to exclude the others. Sauvé and Rabouin came off like old friends who basically agree and Martinez Ferrada seemed kinda bored (maybe it’s a cultural thing?). Rabouin certainly gives the best overall impression and I would guess will win.
Kate 11:06 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
DeWolf: And Roberts is at least a third-generation media guy, his father and grandfather also having been in radio. He can’t claim ignorance of how the principles work.
Orr 12:52 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain-approved candidate for the Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain-approved municipal party tells you all you need to know.
See also: “traffic fluidity.”
Ian 18:48 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
So far Lorraine Printal & Jean Beadouin are their only good challenger candidates, IMO. Ferrada is clearly untrustworthy, but has a lot of incumbents.
I like Sauvé’s politics, but Transition is a real grab bag of has-beens and never-weres. I find it telling that his site is Fench-only – both other parties have an English version.
I don’t much care for Rabouin’s hand-wavey routine and won’t ever vote for PM again while Norris is still in the fold, but at this point it really does look like PM is poised for another sweep.
I do think Beadoin has a decent chance against PM’s Wong for Plateu mayor, though.
DeWolf 22:28 on 2025-09-17 Permalink
I disagree about Beaudoin’s chances, but we’ll see. Beaudoin so far has been extremely grumpy and negative compared to Wong’s sunny vibes, which doesn’t strike me as a winning strategy against a party that has swept the past four elections on the Plateau. We’re not talking majorities, we’re talking mega-majorities.
Ian 09:34 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Hey, you never know. Even PM started small. Name recognition has value, and while PM is still riding high, with Plante gone some of the lustre is off.
Joey 10:02 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Likeliest scenario I think would be PM sweeping the Plateau but loosing the mayoral race. Long term, it’s probably in Projet’s strategic interest to lose this election – the next four-five years are going to be brutal for cities: feds and provinces are running huge deficits, the housing stock problem is worsening which means the problem of homelessness is growing, the economy hasn’t fully felt the impact of Trump’s insane trade war, confidence in the public sector’s ability to do *anything* is waning, unions are flexing their muscles, politics is getting uglier, etc. I suspect a lot of Projet folks are eager to turn the keys over to Martinez Ferrada for a term to demonstrate their competency by comparison to what Ensemble will (fail to) accomplish.
walkerp 15:36 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Damn, Joey, you are playing chess while we are all playing checkers!
Ian 00:07 on 2025-09-20 Permalink
A negative future campaign is inevitable, regardless of who runs ir. PM has always tried to run a cheery, upbeat number.
They’re resting on their laurels and talking about ditching bike paths though, so we’ll see how future forward this feeling-based campaign works for the voters.