James Infantino
James V. Infantino | |
|---|---|
| Montreal City Councillor for Marie-Clarac | |
| In office 2005–2009 | |
| Preceded by | position eliminated |
| Succeeded by | Clementina Teti-Tomassi |
| Montreal City Councillor for Montréal-Nord (with Marcel Parent and Jean-Marc Gibeau) | |
| In office 2002–2005 | |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | position eliminated |
| Montréal-Nord City Councillor, Division 8 | |
| In office 1998–2001 | |
| Preceded by | created by redistribution[1] |
| Succeeded by | position eliminated |
| Montréal-Nord City Councillor, Division 9 | |
| In office 1998–2001 | |
| Preceded by | Armand Nadeau |
| Succeeded by | eliminated by redistribution[2] |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Renouveau municipal (1994–2001) Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU), renamed as Union Montreal (UM) (2001–09) |
James V. Infantino is a retired politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montréal-Nord city council from 1994 to 2001 and a member of the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2009.
Montréal-Nord city councillor
[edit]Infantino ran in the 1994 Montréal-Nord municipal election as a candidate of mayor Yves Ryan's Renouveau municipal and was elected without difficulty.[3] A vocal supporter of the mayor, he was re-elected in 1998.[4]
Montreal city councillor
[edit]All of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal, including Montréal-Nord, were amalgamated into a single city on January 1, 2002. Infantino was narrowly elected to one of Montréal-Nord's three city council seats in the anticipatory 2001 Montreal municipal election as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU).[5] Tremblay won the mayoral election and his party won a majority of seats on council, and Infantino served as a supporter of Tremblay's administration. He was appointed to the Montreal Metropolitan Community in 2002,[6] and by virtue of holding his city council seat he automatically served on the newly created Montréal-Nord borough council.
In 2004, Infantino argued that amalgamation had benefited Montréal-Nord by ensuring that road repairs would be covered by the city's central budget.[7] The following year, he supported an extension of Quebec Autoroute 25 to Laval, which he said would improve pedestrian safety in his borough.[8]
Infantino was re-elected in the 2005 municipal election, in which MICU won a second consecutive majority. He supported a controversial proposal to rename Montreal's Park Avenue after former Quebec premier Robert Bourassa in 2006; on the night of the vote, he was quoted as saying, "I think it's a one-for-one change. Park Ave. was great. Robert Bourassa was great."[9]
He did not seek re-election in 2009.[10]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2005 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Marie-Clarac | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Citizens Union | James Infantino (incumbent) | 4,527 | 52.36 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Ibrahim Mustapha | 2,815 | 32.56 | |||||
| Projet Montréal | Monica Campo | 764 | 8.84 | |||||
| White Elephant | Louis Langevin | 540 | 6.25 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,646 | 100 | – | |||||
| Source: Election results, 2005, City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 2001 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Montréal-Nord (three members elected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Citizens Union | Marcel Parent | 12,884 | 18.76 | |||||
| Citizens Union | Jean-Marc Gibeau | 12,097 | 17.61 | |||||
| Citizens Union | James Infantino | 11,451 | 16.67 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Michelle Allaire | 11,359 | 16.54 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Luigi di Vito | 9,960 | 14.50 | |||||
| Vision Montreal | Nicole Roy-Arcelin | 9,590 | 13.96 | |||||
| Independent | Jean-Claude Mvilongo | 1,354 | 1.97 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 68,695 | 100 | – | |||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| Montréal-Nord municipal election, 1998: Councillor, Division 8 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
| Renouveau municipal | James Infantino (incumbent) | elected | ||||
| Sources: Le Gardien, September–October 2001, p. 28; "Vote recount abandoned," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, A4. | ||||||
| 1994 Montréal-Nord municipal election: Councillor, Division 9 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Renouveau municipal | James Infantino | 1,079 | 80.34 | |||||
| Collectivité de Montréal-Nord | Lise Leonard | 264 | 19.66 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 1,343 | 100 | – | |||||
| Source: Voting Results: The Final Count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4. | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ The previous eighth ward councillor was Normand Fortin.
- ^ The new ninth ward councillor elected in 1998 was Robert Guerriero.
- ^ Mike King, "Battling 272 years of experience; Mayor and his team have been in power since 1963," Montreal Gazette, 21 October 1994, A4; "Voting results: The Final Count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
- ^ Charlie Fidelman, "Montreal North? Just bet on Ryan," Montreal Gazette, 8 October 1998, A8; "Vote recount abandoned," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, A4.
- ^ John MacFarlane and Angus Loten, "'We showed who's boss': Team Tremblay captures the east," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, A7; Mike King, "Megacity council candidate Allaire granted recount in Montreal North," Montreal Gazette, 10 November 2001, A4; Mike King, "Recount decision by noon: Montreal North candidate asked court for help," Montreal Gazette, 14 November 2001, A4; "Vote recount abandoned," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 2001, A4.
- ^ Linda Gyulai, "Plenty of extra pay to go around," Montreal Gazette, 14 May 2002, A4.
- ^ Linda Gyulai, "Pothole paradise: Emergency state requires $200 million a year," Montreal Gazette, 8 February 2004, A1.
- ^ Catherine Solyom, "North-end mayors line up to back Highway 25," Montreal Gazette, 6 May 2005, A6.
- ^ Linda Gyulai, "No Walk in the Park," Montreal Gazette, 29 November 2006, A1.
- ^ "Councillor won't run," Montreal Gazette, 11 July 2009, A8.