Mayor Tremblay and Louise Harel are ramping up the rhetoric about City Hall ethics and, in particular, about an incident back in 2001, when Harel was municipal affairs minister: she arranged, three days before that year’s municipal elections, to give the mayor of Montreal much wider powers to award contracts. This would seem to run directly counter to the notions about municipal contracts that Harel seems to be favouring now that she’s criticizing the current administration herself.
In the ongoing pickup game, Harel has picked Pierre Lampron, who has a history of involvement in cultural affairs, to run in Vieux-Rosemont.