Dear Valerie,
Since the beginning of your career as first magistrate, I have often “bored” you.
Still, I like you. I even confessed it last week on a Laval radio station. I am one of those Montrealers who voted for your training.
Do I recognize myself in your philosophy? Rarely.
But in 2021 once in the ballot box, when your opponent was Denis Coderre, I did not hesitate. I voted for you. And it could well continue.
Critical Voter
Without being a supporter or a partisan, I am therefore one of your voters… and I wonder how many thousands of other Montrealers are, like me, citizens who are very, very critical of you, but who vote for you nevertheless.
If I had half an hour in your company, as I already did with the late Jean Drapeau, I would do my best to send you inexpensive but prestigious ideas.
Eliminate graffiti: under the pretext that it would be urban art, the contagious ugliness of graffiti or barbels degrades the image of the city. The canister commandos disregard the law, and the owners of the buttery establishments must endure.
“Unmuzzle” your francization committee: your francization committee has kept a total silence since its creation and anglicization is still galloping.
Demand construction cameras: any construction site should be filmed 24 hours a day, and the video tape available to everyone.
“Historicize” more
For June 24, why not officially baptize the balcony of the town hall the balcony of General de Gaulle since it is from there that the latter projected us to the four corners of the world?
To stay with de Gaulle, why not decently dress the eponymous bridge so that the entrance to your island is remarkable?
There are dozens of symbolic landmarks that you could enrich your metropolis with simply by naming them!