Vision Montreal recruits two more candidates
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | 12:22 PM ET
CBC News
Vision Montreal has recruited two prestigious candidates from other parties to run in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
Vision Montreal leader Louise Harel announced Tuesday that Brenda Paris would run as a mayoralty candidate for the borough in the upcoming municipal election. Paris was until recently the president of Union Montreal, the party of Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay.
Harel also announced David Hanna, an urban planning professor at UQAM, would run as a city council candidate in the NDG district. He had previously been working with the Projet Montreal party.
Montrealers head to the polls on November 1.
More campaign recruits for Vision Montreal
Vision Montreal has recruited some more big names as it prepares its platform for the upcoming election campaign.
Louise Harel announced Monday the head of Montreal's Regional Council on the Environment, André Porlier, will head a working group looking at environmental issues.
The party has also recruited Marcel Côté, co-founder of consulting firm SECOR, to head a committee looking at questions of governance.
In May, Harel announced Vision Montreal had recruited respected lawyer Julius Grey to look at questions of ethics. The former head of the Metropolitan Transport Agency, Florence Junca-Adenot, has also been recruited to look at questions of transportation.
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