Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2006

The Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2006 was held in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2006. All municipal elections in the province of Ontario are held on the same date; see Ontario municipal elections, 2006 for elections in other cities.

The election chose the mayor and city councillors who will sit on Greater Sudbury City Council. As with other Ontario municipal elections, the 2006 election marked the first time that Ontario's city councils will sit for a four-year term; until 2006, municipal elections were held every three years.

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Issues

The primary issue in the 2006 elections was the municipal amalgamation of 2001. Prior to January 1, 2001, the current city of Greater Sudbury consisted of seven separate municipalities, together comprising the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On that date, the provincial government of Ontario dissolved all seven former municipalities and the regional government, merging them all into the current city government. However, many residents of the outlying communities in the city have alleged that their municipal services have deteriorated significantly since the amalgamation.

In early 2006, residents of the former town of Rayside-Balfour began to campaign for the deamalgamation of the city and the return of the former municipal government structure. The city government has refused to endorse the petition — even if the petition were endorsed by the city, however, any deamalgamation referendum would still require the consent of the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, which has set a number of very strict conditions for permitting a referendum.

Mayor David Courtemanche announced an advisory committee, chaired by former Member of Provincial Parliament Floyd Laughren, to consult with communities in the city and seek solutions to their concerns about municipal government services. This committee did not submit its final report to the city until January 10, 2007, several weeks after the 2006 municipal election, although a summary of the issues raised during the initial consultations, as well as an outline of the final report process, was presented in advance of the election.

In June 2006, the city was also criticized for its handling of a leave of absence taken by fire chief Don Donaldson, as well as a study which found that Sudbury had the highest-paid mayor and councillors of any Ontario city in its population range. Council has been also criticized for several development-related decisions, including a $13 million expansion of the Kingsway between Minnow Lake and Coniston, a controversial decision to permit construction of a new school and a medical office building on the Lily Creek marshlands near Science North, and a project to increase sewer capacity in the South End (Ward 9) area by construction of a rock tunnel. Following a $4 million budget shortfall in the latter project, the city imposed special development fees on new residential and commercial construction in the neighbourhood.

With the recent takeovers of two of the city's major employers, Falconbridge Ltd. by Swiss mining giant Xstrata and Inco Limited by the Brazilian company CVRD, and the recent financial crisis faced by the city's Northern Breweries, the issues of jobs and economic development in the city were also expected to play a role in the election campaign. One of John Rodriguez's campaign planks was to lobby for the city to be given a share of the corporate taxes paid by the mining companies to the federal and provincial governments; the inability to directly tax two of the city's largest employers has been cited in the past as a barrier to the city's economic and social development.

Some candidates also cited the desire to see more women serve on council; only six of the 45 declared candidates in the 2006 election were women, and three of those six were incumbent councillors. In the final election results, four of the five women running for council seats were elected; one female ward candidate was not elected, nor was mayoral candidate Lynne Reynolds.

Mayoral race

2006 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Mayor of Greater Sudburyedit
Candidate Total votes  % of total votes
John Rodriguez 28,419 51.89
(x)David Courtemanche 16,600 30.31
Lynne Reynolds 8,996 16.42
David Chevrier 429 0.78
Marc Crockford 159 0.29
Ed Pokonzie 92 0.17
David Popescu 76 0.14
Total valid votes 54,771 100.00

Earlier in 2006, local media speculated that former mayor Jim Gordon might run for mayor again as well, but in September he ended that speculation by endorsing Rodriguez; Gordon had endorsed Courtemanche in 2003. Rodriguez was also endorsed by 2003 mayoral candidate Paul Marleau, former city councillor Gerry McIntaggart and the Sudbury and District Labour Council.

During the campaign, Rodriguez was sometimes criticized for making potentially unrealistic promises, such as eliminating homelessness in the city, which depended on lobbying the provincial or federal governments for funding and program cooperation that those governments had not guaranteed would be made available. However, both of his main opponents were also criticized as well. Courtemanche, who did not officially declare his candidacy until just a few days before the nomination deadline, was viewed by many voters as having been a weak and ineffective leader during the previous council term, and faced allegations that he had held off his campaign launch until the last minute precisely to insulate himself from having to answer that criticism on the campaign trail. Reynolds, meanwhile, was criticized by the city's media for a vague and confrontational campaign which was critical of the existing council, but offered very few specific new ideas of her own.

A Sudbury Star opinion poll published on November 1 placed Rodriguez in the lead with 49 per cent support among decided voters, with Courtemanche trailing at 30 per cent and Reynolds at 20 per cent. The other four candidates had approximately one per cent support combined.[28]

On the final weekend before the election, Reynolds garnered the endorsement of the Sudbury Star, while the community newspaper Northern Life endorsed Courtemanche. Both newspapers acknowledged that Rodriguez had been the most successful of the three at defining the issues and direction of the campaign, but cited misgivings about his agenda as their principal reason for choosing not to endorse him.

Ward boundary adjustments

When the current city of Greater Sudbury was created in 2001, the city was divided into six wards, each of which was represented by two councillors. In 2005, the city council adopted a new ward structure, in which the city would now be divided into twelve wards with a single councillor per ward.

This redistribution of wards was itself controversial, because it divided some communities within the city that were formerly closely associated with each other — for example, the former town of Rayside-Balfour was split, with Azilda falling in Ward 4 and Chelmsford falling in Ward 3. The original ward structure had also been designed to balance political power, crossing the pre-2001 municipal boundaries to help prevent the urban core of the city from ignoring the needs of the more rural communities.

Under the new ward structure, however, five of the twelve wards are purely urban, and it has been alleged that this may weaken the city's ability to respond to the needs of residents outside of the central city. Floyd Laughren's final report on municipal government services, tabled in early 2007, included a recommendation for further adjustments to make ward boundaries more closely correspond to the former municipal divisions. Laughren specifically noted the former towns of Capreol and Onaping Falls as communities that should be reconstituted as their own distinct city wards.

Results

In addition to David Courtemanche, two incumbent councillors were also defeated — notably, both represented wards outside of the pre-2001 city boundaries, and hence may have been vulnerable in part because of the amalgamation referendum controversy. The councillors whose wards were most directly affected by the Kingsway, Lily Creek and South End sewer tunnel controversies were all re-elected. Two wards, both in the old city, had no incumbent councillor running for reelection.

In Ward 12, the city's website initially named John Caruso as the winner with 1,798 votes, to challenger Joscelyne Landry-Altmann's 1,756. However, the city later reported an apparent technical error in the upload of vote totals to the website, with 460 votes mistakenly uploaded twice. (This error did not affect the actual vote tabulations, merely the reported totals on the election results webpage.) In the adjusted count, Landry-Altmann won over Caruso by a similarly narrow margin. Caruso called for a recount,[29] which was conducted on December 1 and confirmed Landry-Altmann's victory.[30]

Councillors

Candidate Vote  %
Ward 1
Joe Cimino 3,016 68.6
Carlos Reyes 1001 22.8
John Mathew 382 8.7
Robert Allard (withdrawn)
Ward 2
Jacques Barbeau 1,838 35.81
Terry Kett (X) 1,730 33.70
Sandy Bass 1,153 22.46
Stephen L. Butcher 223 4.34
Travis Morgan 189 3.68
Ward 3
Claude Berthiaume (X) 3,094 65.3
Mike Dupont 1,167 24.6
Bill Hedderson 479 10.1
Ward 4
Evelyn Dutrisac 2,663 63.1
Ronald Bradley (X) 967 22.9
Marcel Rainville 318 7.5
Robert Boileau 275 6.5
Ward 5
Ron Dupuis (X) 2,051 51.5
Louise Portelance 1,931 48.5
Yvan Robert (withdrawn)
Ward 6
André Rivest (X) 2,115 44.5
Robert Kirwan 1,523 32.0
Henri Lagrandeur 1,116 23.5
Ward 7
Russ Thompson (X) 2,264 55.6
Dave Kilgour 1,811 44.4
Ward 8
Ted Callaghan (X) 2,765 70.9
Harry Will 1,135 29.1
Ward 9
Doug Craig (X) 1,958 42.3
Jim Sartor 1,497 32.3
John Cochrane 787 17.0
Marvin Julian 387 8.4
Fran Nault (withdrawn)
Ward 10
Frances Caldarelli (X) 2,301 43.5
Austin Davey 1,737 32.9
Fern Cormier 1,246 23.6
Ward 11
Janet Gasparini (X) 2,310 48.4
Mike Petryna 1,381 29.0
Rick Villeneuve 1,079 22.6
Ward 12
Joscelyne Landry-Altmann 1,586 40.1
John Caruso 1,529 38.6
Derek Young 516 13.0
Will Brunette 329 8.3

School trustees

2006 Greater Sudbury election, Trustee, Rainbow District School Board, Area 1
Candidate Total votes  % of total votes
(x)Gord Santala accl. .
2006 Greater Sudbury election, Trustee, Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Ward Five
Candidate Total votes  % of total votes
(x)Paula Peroni 1,570 49.73
Ted Szilva 1,038 32.88
Geraldine Meskell 549 17.39
Total valid votes 3,157 100.00

Followup

The new council was sworn in on December 6, 2006. In his inaugural speech, Rodriguez laid out an ambitious "first 100 days" agenda for change in the city, which included eliminating the transfer fee on the city's TransCab service (which offers taxi service to residents of remote areas of the city not served by Greater Sudbury Transit), and creating citizen committees to oversee a number of projects, including the implementation of Floyd Laughren's report on service improvements in the amalgamated city, reviewing the city's recreational facilities and pursuing the creation of an arts centre, revising the city's corporate taxation base, pursuing economic growth opportunities in the health care sector, and devolving some legislative authority to the existing local community action networks.

Rodriguez also ignited some controversy by making two unilateral decisions on his first day in office, reaffirming that stores in the city would not be permitted to open on Boxing Day and authorizing the Franco-Ontarian flag to be flown at Tom Davies Square.[150] The latter decision invoked polarized opinion, with some praising the mayor for taking authoritative action and others criticizing him for isolating other cultural groups in the community.

Reynolds announced in December that she would be a candidate for the Liberal Party nomination for Nickel Belt in the next federal election, following Ray Bonin's announcement that he would retire from office at the end of the current parliamentary session. She later withdrew from the race, endorsing competitor Sylvain Beaudry; however, the nomination was ultimately won by Louise Portelance, who was also a defeated municipal council candidate in 2006.

Floyd Laughren tabled his committee report on January 10, 2007, making 34 recommendations for improvements in the city's municipal ward structure, communications, transportation, recreation and transit services. Rodriguez and most council members responded favourably to the report, indicating that they would attempt to implement as many of the recommendations as possible.

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  132. ^ Petryna highlighted his record of providing services for his ward, drawing particular attention to the establishment of Minnow Lake Place, and the creation of the Minnow Lake Community Action Network (Minnow Lake CAN). See Harold Carmichael, "Ward 11 mixes old and new", Sudbury Star, 1 November 2006, A3 and "Ward 11 is Minnow Lake Area", Northern Life, 2 November 2006, accessed 30 September 2008.
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  135. ^ "Opportunities: Economic development initiatives seek to build on city's current successes", Sudbury Star, 9 December 2001, A7.
  136. ^ Bob Vaillancourt, "Development group chief says it's not chasing windmills", Sudbury Star, 12 April 2002, A9; Bob Vaillancourt, "City nabs deal to build wind turbines: Germany-Sudbury agreement expected to create 90 jobs", Sudbury Star, 16 May 2002, A1.
  137. ^ Jennifer McCauley, "City seeks to become centre of mining excellence", Sudbury Star, 6 December 2002, A3.
  138. ^ Trevor Wilhelm, "Group calls on city to let stores stay open later", Sudbury Star, 15 May 2003, A1.
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  141. ^ Laura Stradiotto, "Caruso knocks rivals' track record: 'What have these candidates done for you lately?'", Sudbury Star, 10 October 2003, A5. See also John Caruso, "Greater Sudbury needs a program of managed debt", Sudbury Star, 2 January 2004, A9.
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  143. ^ Rob O'Flanagan, "City to begin branding project without federal money", Sudbury Star, 14 October 2004, A3; Denis St. Pierre, "Branding moves forward: City initiative to begin this spring", Sudbury Star, 16 February 2005, A5.
  144. ^ Rob O'Flanagan, "Boom in mining sector causes space shortage: City industrial parks need to be expanded", Sudbury Star, 9 June 2005, A1; GREATER SUDBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIR AND MEMBERS, City of Greater Sudbury, 12 June 2006, accessed 18 September 2008.
  145. ^ "Chamber swears in new board of directors", '"Sudbury Star, 8 July 2005, A4.
  146. ^ John Caruso, "Home sweet home on reserves", Sudbury Star, 2 December 2005, B7.
  147. ^ "Rocky Roads A Concern In Ward 12", Northern Life, 8 November 2006, accessed 18 September 2008.
  148. ^ Laura Stradiotto, "Minimum wage an 'ethical and moral' issue", Sudbury Star, 8 March 2007, A3. He also wrote a piece in support of the FedNor organization. See John Caruso, "FedNor offers Northern Ontario more than we know", Sudbury Star, 28 November 2007, A11.
  149. ^ Laura Stradiotto, "Trustees 'are responsible for the outcome of human lives'", Sudbury Star, 7 November 2003, A12.
  150. ^ Mayor drives home agenda for next 100 days

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