Projet Montréal

Projet Montréal
Active municipal party
Leader Valérie Plante
President Nathalie Goulet[1]
Founded May 28, 2004
Headquarters 4000 Notre-Dame O.
Montreal, Quebec
H4C 1R1
Ideology Environmentalism
Direct democracy
Social democracy
Political position Centre-left
Colours Green and Blue
Seats on council
17 / 65
Website
projetmontreal.org (French)

Projet Montréal is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Origins

Projet Montréal is possibly the first party since the Montreal Citizens' Movement (RCM) that was not specifically established to promote a mayoral candidacy. It was created by environmental activists in May 2004.

Electoral performance

Richard Bergeron was the party's first mayoral candidate. He was elected to the City Council in 2005 and gathered 8.53% of the vote for Mayor.

In the September 2006 by-election held in the district of Marie-Victorin, Projet Montreal candidate and former city councillor Kettly Beauregard won 31.7% of the vote, for a strong second-place finish.

In December 2007, candidate Jean-Claude Marsan took second place with 37.43% in a by-election to replace disgraced Outremont borough mayor Stephane Harbour. At the same time, there was a by-election in Outremont's Robert-Bourassa district to replace Marie Cinq-Mars, who chose to run for borough mayor. Candidate Denise Rochefort also placed second, with 35.13% of the vote.

In the 2009 Montreal municipal election, Bergeron led the party through steadily increasing polls to a strong third-place showing, winning fourteen seats on city and borough councils, including two borough mayors, and sweeping Le Plateau-Mont-Royal.

In April 2012, Érika Duchesne won a by-election in the Vieux-Rosemont district of Rosemont-La Petite Patrie, giving Project Montreal its 11th seat on city council.[2]

In the 2013 Montreal municipal election, Projet Montréal doubled its number of seats within city council, going from 10 to 20. Projet Montreal became the official opposition against Denis Coderre's team. After the election, Richard Bergeron stated that he would resign his party leadership within the next 12 or 24 months. He admitted that he disappointed with the election results but that he would remain to make Projet Montréal into a true opposition to Coderre's administration.[3]

Platform

Projet Montréal advocates sustainable urbanism,[4] which is the application of the principles of sustainable development to an urban setting, such as Downtown Montreal. One of the party's proposals consists of building light rail in order to do the following:

Projet Montréal's 2009 platform elaborates commitments for seven major aspects of urban living:[6]

1. renewal and expansion of participatory democracy
2. affordable housing and reinforcing socio-urban tissue
3. sustainable transport (public transit and active transit)
4. environmental sustainability
5. economic development
6. culture
7. accountability and public services

Mayoral candidates

  Election Mayoral Candidate Popular Vote for Mayor Number of Councillors
  2005 Richard Bergeron 8.53% 1/64
  2009 Richard Bergeron 25.45% 10/64
  2013 Richard Bergeron 25.52% 20/64

Victories are indicated with bold fonts.

Councillors

Projet Montréal currently holds the following seats on Montreal City Council and borough councils.

City councillors

Borough Position Party Name
Ahuntsic-Cartierville Councillor, Ahuntsic   Émilie Thuillier
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Councillor, Côte-des-Neiges   Magda Popeanu
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Councillor, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce   Peter McQueen
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Councillor, Hochelaga   Éric Alan Caldwell
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Councillor, Maisonneuve–Longue-Pointe   Laurence Lavigne Lalonde
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough mayor   Luc Ferrandez
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Councillor, DeLorimier   Louise Mainville
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Councillor, Jeanne-Mance   Alex Norris
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Councillor, Mile-End   Richard Ryan
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Borough mayor   François Croteau
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Councillor, Marie-Victorin   Guillaume Lavoie
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Councillor, Saint-Édouard   François Limoges
Le Sud-Ouest Councillor, Saint-Henri–
Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles		   Craig Sauvé
Le Sud-Ouest Councillor, Saint-Paul–Émard   Anne-Marie Sigouin
Verdun Councillor, Desmarchais-Crawford   Sterling Downey
Ville-Marie Councillor, Sainte-Marie   Valérie Plante
Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension Councillor, François-Perrault   Sylvain Ouellet

Borough councillors

The city councillors listed above all sit on the councils of their respective boroughs. In addition to these, the party holds the following seats on borough councils.

Borough Position Party Name
Outremont Borough councillor, Claude-Ryan   Mindy Pollak
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough councillor, DeLorimier   Marianne Giguère
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough councillor, Jeanne-Mance   Christine Gosselin
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough councillor, Mile-End   Marie Plourde
Le Sud-Ouest Borough councillor, Saint-Henri–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles   Sophie Thiébaut
Le Sud-Ouest Borough councillor, Saint-Paul–Émard   Alain Vaillancourt
Verdun Borough councillor, Desmarchais-Crawford (1)   Luc Gagnon
Verdun Borough councillor, Desmarchais-Crawford (2)   Marie-Andrée Mauger

References

  1. ↑ The Projet Montréal leadership race will be held in Fall 2016
  2. ↑ Projet Montréal picks up council seat in Vieux Rosemont by-election, Montreal Gazette, April 29, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/montreal/391927/richard-bergeron-chef-de-projet-montreal-compte-se-retirer-dans-les-prochains-mois
  4. ↑ New Political Party Based On Sustainable Urbanism, Planetizen, November 11, 2004
  5. ↑ A tramline named desire, Montreal Mirror, February 8-14, 2007
  6. ↑ Programme pour la relance durable de Montréal
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