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I guess we have to give her a chance, but her campaign did not really inspire confidence. Comes across as too wishy washy to me.
The city is a construction mess, with the work not being co-ordinated in any way. We’ll see if she can improve things.
The city also badly needs low income housing and has to handle the homeless situation.
And if she had balls she would tear down some of the bike paths, our previous mayor’s legacy, that are in many areas that don’t need them, and take away parking spots that businesses badly need for customer parking.
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I agree with Sheldon’s take. They just put up near my home in the last 3 weeks, new bike paths. They cause horrible traffick!
The city has a ton of homeless people. I live in Ahuntsic, which is far away from downtown and is a quiet family part of the city. Even here there are homeless people now. It was not like this a few years ago.
The former administration was also too soft on crime. It seems every week there are shootings in the city. Just awful.
We had no good choices in this election. The three major parties were far left Kumbaya parties. No center left or center right parties to balance things out. I am a centrist, or a slight left of center person. I really dislike what the far left has done to Montreal in the last 8 years. Valérie Plante was a clueless and dogmatic extremist.
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What jurisdiction does a mayor have on crime?
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Homelessness is a function of poverty and inequality. Being “tough on crime” has literally never worked to reduce crime born of poverty and in fact has the opposite effect.
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The mayor sets the budget for the police, chooses a lame police chief and makes the police into social workers rather than police.
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The street gangs that are shooting up the streets in Montreal are not poor. They are richer than me and I make a good living.
The Plante administration thinks that social worker police will work. It has not worked either.
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Where the cops have been completely useless is in controlling the protection racket gangs.
Every 2nd day you hear of a Molotov cocktail being thrown into a business.
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I know what you mean. I grew up in Ahuntsic. It’s still a nice area but it’s not what it used to be. Let’s face it. The demographics have changed in Montreal. Now each area has many, many different types of ethnic groups. Many friends who I grew up with moved to the suburbs. I think that has something to do with the change in Montreal. And yes having plant as mayor did not help at all.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that most Canadians enjoy Socialism. That’s the collective choice so as long as the working poor supply enough tax revenues, the dream stays alive. We found a workaround. 3 of 4 family members make six figures working for the government. I mean “The Citizens”.
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I had forgotten about that. You are right.
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