Montreal municipal election, 1998

The city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada held municipal elections on November 1, 1998, to elect a mayor and city councillors. Pierre Bourque was returned to a second term as mayor against a divided opposition.

Various suburban communities on the Island of Montreal also held elections on November 1.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Mayor 1.2 City Councillors 2 Suburban communities 3 Information about the candidates 4 References

Results

Mayor

City Councillors

Suburban communities

Saint-Leonard

Information about the candidates

New Montreal

• Lanise Hayes (François-Perrault) was a first time candidate.
• Jacques Baribeau (Maisonneuve) was a first-time candidate. He later sought the Bloc Québécois nomination for a 2009 by-election in Hochelaga, describing himself as a committed Quebec sovereigntist and social democrat, but did not receive support from the party establishment and was defeated by Daniel Paillé.^[1] He has also served as treasurer of SPQ Libre.^[2]

Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Jacynthe Simard (Maisonneuve) was previously a Democratic Coalition-Ecology Montreal candidate in the 1994 municipal election. A vocal supporter of Quebec sovereignty, she was appointed in October 1995 to a provincial committee on possible negotiations with the Canadian government.^[3]

Team Montreal

• Yasmin Bautista (François-Perrault) was a school commissioner.^[4]
• Jean Vianney Jutras (Maisonneuve) directed the City of Montreal's department of recreation and community development (renamed in 1993 as the department of parks, recreation and community-development services) for about twenty years, led Montreal's successful bid to host the 1997 Quebec Summer Games, and was committee treasurer for Montreal's bid to host the 2006 Gay Games.^[5] He was appointed to the Montreal-Centre regional health board in 2002.^[6] The 1998 election was his only bid for public office.

Independents

• Michel Handfield (François-Perrault), a sociologist, was a member of the environmental group PARI Saint-Michel. He had been a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the early 1990s and briefly joined Vision Montreal in 1994. In the 1998 election, he said that he was running to protest the city's sale of land at the Hippodrome de Montreal to the province.^[7] Handfield later took part in a campaign to shut down the Miron garbage landfill.^[8]

References

1. ^ Steve Caron, "Une lutte à deux pour l'investiture du Bloc québécois", Nouvelles Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, 18 September 2009, accessed 26 November 2011; [http://www.hilltimes.com/news/2009/10/12/upcoming-byelections-a-referendum-on-government/22546 Harris McLeod, "Upcoming byelections a referendum on government," Hill Times, 12 October 2009, accessed 26 November 2011.
2. ^ [http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/285076/enfin-dedouanes Jean Baribeau, "Enfin dédouanés!", Le Devoir, 17 March 2010, accessed 26 November 2011.
3. ^ Rheal Seguin, "Parizeau announces watchdog committee," Montreal Gazette, 7 October 1995, A4.
4. ^ Monique Beaudin, "Dore vague on plan's details: Former mayor unveils team for comeback bid," Montreal Gazette, 23 May 1998, p. 5.
5. ^ "Department being revamped to improve city's parks," Montreal Gazette, 20 March 1993, A4; Mary Lamey, "Going for gold: Montreal in running for 2006 Gay Games and its economic spinoffs," Montreal Gazette, 28 April 2001, C1.
6. ^ "Goldbloom named to health board," Montreal Gazette, 15 March 2002, A10.
7. ^ Linda Gyulai, "Independents' day?: Unaffiliated candidates could wield power," Montreal Gazette, 6 October 1998, p. 1.
8. ^ Michael Mainville, "Dump's days are numbered: Miron's neighbours will be able to breathe a clean sigh of relief," Montreal Gazette, 25 November 1999, p. 5.