09:51 on 2013/02/05 Reply  

• jeather 10:08 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  “Only” 41%? I’m surprised the number’s that high.

• Kate 11:11 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  I know. But this is the city that re-elected Tremblay in 2009 after the media had already demonstrated his administration was running on brown envelopes. I think most people (not unreasonably) want to pick a city administration and forget about it, so long as potholes get filled.

• Clément 11:26 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  Laval is the best example of voter apathy. When the scandals started piling up at the end of last year, I would talk to Lavalois and they would all say “Yeah, but we have nice shopping malls and our taxes are low. So overall, Vaillancourt is a good mayor.” Apparently, people don’t mind a crooked thief, as long as they have a big shopping malls with huge free parking.

  Québec city is a time-bomb. When they start building the new arena (half of it paid with property taxes, the other half with income taxes) and the extras start piling up and they eventually find themselves paying for an empty arena — No, the Nordiques are not coming back –, they’ll start complaining too. Of course, like Tremblay, he will get re-elected over and over nonetheless. They’ll just find some other level of government to blame.

• Dave M 12:03 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  The potholes got filled when Tremblay was around? That’s news to me, too.

• Kate 12:14 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  They did. They have crews and machines and they’ve had them for years. I don’t think basic maintenance has been the issue.

• jeather 12:54 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  I don’t think anyone trusted Tremblay particularly, but everyone else seemed (a) no more trustworthy and (b) no more likely to be effective. Better the devil you know kind of choice.

• Dave M 14:58 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  I don’t know about that. I drove up St. Laurent yesterday, and it felt more like a slalom than a straight line with the potholes. I don’t remember it being any better under Tremblay, (in fact, last time I drove across Rue Sherbrooke was before he stepped down, and I remember it being even worse.)

  I don’t really mind the road infrastructure being bad, I take it for granted that it is (and I’d rather they put the money into, say, bike lanes than pot holes) and just consider it a way to discourage people from driving when they don’t have to, but I definitely don’t remember it being *good* under Tremblay.

• Ant6n 16:46 on 2013/02/05 Permalink

  @Kate
  “But this is the city that re-elected Tremblay in 2009 after the media had already demonstrated his administration was running on brown envelopes.”
  They didn’t exactly _demonstrate_, I think they sorta implicated. (/picky)

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