Greater Montreal area
Town planning
There are many challenges in Verdun, but in the L’Île-des-Sœurs neighborhood, Pointe-Sud represents a major urban planning challenge. Westclif begins construction of a 44-storey condo tower and requests permission to build another 42-storey. This sector is isolated, at the end of dead end streets, with no local shops. In 2021, it is surprising that we can build such projects without a real urban vision.
Daniel Manseau, Verdun
Hospital
In Laval, it would be essential that our elected municipal officials have a plan to vigorously promote the absolute need for a second hospital site on the island. A single hospital for 440,000 inhabitants, so a single major emergency room operating 24 hours a day, it’s a shame. For an equivalent population, Quebec City has seven emergency rooms. Although health is a provincial responsibility, it is incumbent on our elected officials to represent their population in order to denounce these injustices.
Michel Breton
Island of freshness
For us, in Candiac, as for many other municipalities of the CMM, the purchase of the old golf course and its transformation into a conservation park constitutes the main challenge of our elected officials, in order to preserve our largest islet of freshness in the city and to pass on a legacy to future generations in the fight against climate change.
Yves Couturier, President of the Regroupement des residents de Candiac
Natural environments
In Laval: see to protecting more natural environments. Conserve and develop woodlots in areas of higher residential density. For example, in the area of Carrefour Laval, we find several towers of condos. In the building we live in, there are 134 units. That’s a lot of people, and we are not alone in this situation. And what do we have as green space in this environment? That a very small wooded area of nothing. It’s hard. Cement, asphalt, cement…! Purchase possibilities exist. So whichever party wins, see it.
Pierre Langevin
Green spaces
In Anjou, the main challenge will be to keep our very few green spaces, to the detriment of the Costco and Amazon warehouses of this world.
Mireille Séguin
Collective pride
In Longueuil, the main challenge is to develop an identity, a collective pride to bring together its communities resulting from mergers. Bringing together small municipalities does not necessarily make it a city, with its downtown, its animation, its own culture and its citizens. Longueuil is precisely this absence.
Jules Ostiguy
Unity is strength
I live in Pincourt, on Île Perrot. I would like the mayors of the four municipalities to decide to merge. It is inconceivable that, on the island of 40,000 inhabitants, we have four town councils and no arena! That we have no indoor pool! Compared to the neighboring city of Vaudreuil-Dorion which, with a similar population, enjoys infrastructures comparable to those of a large city. Until we have a global vision for the island, government grants for quality infrastructure will be given to other cities that serve a larger population. Unity is strength !
Serge Leduc
Donkey rides and noise pollution
In Laval, the City absolutely must stop spending our taxes with unnecessary sidewalks everywhere in the neighborhoods. Instead, we need to put in place speed bumps to reduce speed and tackle the pollution of our environment by noise.
Richard Jean-Legros
Collective transport
In Montreal, the biggest challenge is to find the best way to convince people to mainly use public transport for getting around the city. So multiple challenges to get there: efficient active transport service at all times, development of local services throughout the city, investment in urban development projects that will take into account a global plan, implementation of measures that encourage employers to opt for a hybrid work model for employees, etc.
Karine Patoine
Elsewhere in Quebec
Tram
In Quebec, the main challenge for the next mayor will be to rally the population and the maximum number of advisers to carry out public transport projects, including the tramway. It will take leadership, since it is very likely that no party will win a majority. This project has lasted long enough and it must be carried out as soon as possible with some improvements, in particular by cutting as few trees as possible and respecting the allocated budget.
Carol Landry
Leadership
In Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, the big challenge for our municipality will be to have a director general who will stay for more than one term. Since 2007, we have had our second home in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, and the turnover of staff at the municipality is staggering. I don’t have enough of my 10 fingers to count them. We need leadership, someone who rallies his troops.
Brigitte Renaud
Roaming
In Saint-Jérôme, the big challenge is living together with the homeless. I am a specialist nurse practitioner on the front line in a mobile clinic (as a volunteer!) For these homeless people and, currently, it is the community that takes care of these people.
Myriam Laroche
Potable water
Here in Port-Menier (L’Île-d’Anticosti), we have been forced to boil our water, which comes from the municipal aqueduct, for 20 years. Hopefully the plan to remedy this will be put in place this year.
Michel charlebois
Police and town planning service
In Repentigny, we have to resolve the problem with the management of the police department and consult citizens about town planning.
René Cyr
Water
Sutton has been running out of water for years. Elected officials will therefore have to quickly find a lasting solution!
Lorraine Goyette
Revitalization
In Varennes, things are going pretty well. In my opinion, the main challenges are the revitalization of the city center, already affected before the pandemic, but practically dead since, the decongestion of the “new” industrial pole (victim of its success), and the erosion of the banks of the St. Lawrence. (caused by maritime traffic, which is likely to increase with the expansion of the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur).
Marc Therrien