City budget is adopted
Ensemble’s first city budget has been adopted. Projet didn’t support it, but since they no longer have the majority on council, it passed anyway.
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Ian 19:08 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
Well I guess it’s their turn to bitterly and ineffectually snipe for a few years.
Kate 12:10 on 2026-01-30 Permalink
The best thing Projet could do over the next four years is review what they wanted to do, what they did get done and what they didn’t or couldn’t get done. Especially the things they hoped to do but couldn’t, and face the reasons why. And then, how they’d go about it differently given a new chance.
I think what frustrated me most about Projet was a tendency to keep trying to do things that had proven unpopular or impossible. They should have understood that their ideas about the Camillien‑Houde were deeply unpopular, and they should have realized that their plans for developing social housing projects were never going to get funding from Quebec. I can’t say what they should’ve done instead in the case of housing, because I’m not a politician with financial chops.
Ian 20:02 on 2026-01-30 Permalink
That’s a very good analysis, really, and regardless of your chops it is the best course of action for any kind of post-mortem. Without that going over the wins and losses and coming up with strategies for moving their goals forward, there’s no real opportunity for learning from their slow deflation over that las tterm and eventual defeat.
Ferrada will blow it after a while, everyone does. Projet can be poised to come back in swinging if they focus not just on what this administration does wrong, but also what they themselves did when in power and how to really fine tune that plan for the next election – not just to win, but also to govern more effectively as a progressive political movement. After all, that’s what everyone voted for back when they rose to power.