Montreal municipal election, 1994

The 1994 Montreal municipal election took place on November 6, 1994. Pierre Bourque was elected to his first term as mayor, defeating incumbent Jean Doré. Elections were also held in Montreal's suburban communities.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Mayor 1.2 Council 2 Information on the candidates 3 Suburban results 4 Information on candidates in suburban communities 5 References

Results

Mayor

Council

Information on the candidates

Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Lise Brunet (François-Perrault) was a first time candidate.

Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal

• Mario Laquerre (François-Perrault) is a specialist in urban affairs. He studied possible uses for the abandoned Francon Quarry in north-end Montreal during the 1990s and, in the 1994 campaign, articulated his party's position that parts of the quarry could be converted to a giant urban campsite.^[1] Laquerre also co-ordinated a local residents group that opposed the Miron quarry landfill site, an active garbage dump located within the city limits.^[2] After the 1994 election, he served as president of the Front Commun Québécois pour une Gestion Écologique des Déchets (which sought to limit the shipment of garbage among Quebec's regions) and worked for the group RECYQ-QUÉBEC.^[3]

Suburban results

Saint-Leonard

Information on candidates in suburban communities

Independents

• Joseph Mormina is a Montreal entrepreneur. He sought election to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate of the Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard and was narrowly defeated both times. When his party fragmented in 1984, Mormina joined the Action civique de Saint-Léonard and supported Domenico Moschella's bid to become mayor of Saint-Leonard in a municipal by-election.^[4] Action civique later folded into Unité de Saint-Léonard, and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the 1986 municipal election.^[5] He ran as an independent in 1994.

References

1. ^ Paul Wells, "Quarry would make good campsite: party; North-end pit to continue as snow dump," Montreal Gazette, 24 September 1994, p. 3.
2. ^ Graeme Hamilton, "Broken promises; St. Michel residents filled with political skepticism, especially when it comes to the Miron garbage dump," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1994, p. 4; Anne McIlroy, "Neighbors fed up with life on edge of the pit," Montreal Gazette, 21 November 1994, p. 3.
3. ^ Lynn Moore, "Protesters want tougher garbage laws," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 1995, p. 3; Rita Legault, "Grant funds composting education program: Turning organic waste into compost is a simple and inexpensive process: Morency," Montreal Gazette, 10 April 2001, p. 3.
4. ^ "Case delayed in suit against St. Leonard by ex-secretary," Montreal Gazette, 22 May 1986, p. 6. Raymond Renaud won the by-election and subsequently fired Mormina's wife, who worked a secretary in the mayor's office. She later charged Renaud with wrongful dismissal.
5. ^ Mormina was thirty-eight years old during this election. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," Montreal Gazette, 9 October 1986, p. 8.