Ensemble Montréal
Ensemble Montréal | |
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Active municipal party | |
Leader | Lionel Perez |
Founded | May 23, 2013 |
Headquarters | 1100 Cremazie Boulevard East, apt. 207 Montreal, Quebec H2P 2X2 |
Seats on council | 21 / 65 |
Ensemble Montréal is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its 35 elected officiials are present in many districts in Montreal and represent the boroughs of Montréal-Nord (mayor, Christine Black), Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles (mayor, Chantal Rouleau), Saint-Léonard (mayor, Michel Bissonnet), Saint-Laurent (mayor, Alan DeSousa) and Pierrefonds-Roxboro (mayor, Dimitrios (Jim) Beis). Since November 5, 2017, Lionel Perez is the interim leader and the 21 elected officials who sit on the Montreal City Council form the Official Opposition. To find the list of Ensemble Montréal's elected officials by borough: https://ensemblemtl.org/index.php/en/elected-officials
2013 elections
The party was created in 2013 under the name Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal to support the candidacy of Denis Coderre for Mayor of Montréal during the November 3rd, 2013 municipal elections. In 2012, Denis Coderre announced his candidacy for mayor of Montreal.[1] Beginning in June 2013, seventeen sitting members of Montreal City Council, as well as several borough councillors, switched their party affiliation to Coderre's team.[2] Most were sitting as independent councillors following the dissolution of the Union Montréal party in the wake of Gérald Tremblay's resignation as mayor in 2012, although Coderre attracted support from former Vision Montréal and Projet Montréal councillors as well.
The party also announced a number of non-incumbent candidates in other races, including former Radio-Canada journalist Philippe Schnobb.[3] However, the party also faced some criticism for the fact that of the 19 candidates announced by the party as of early August, fifteen were incumbents and only four were new candidates, resulting in media speculation that Coderre could potentially fall short of his early promise to put forward a slate of candidates that was at least 50 per cent new.[4]
Councillors
After the 2013 election, Équipe Denis Coderre held the following seats on Montreal City Council and borough councils.[2][5][6]
Councillor | Borough | Position |
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Mario Batista | Saint-Léonard | borough councillor, Saint-Léonard-Ouest |
Dimitrios Jim Beis | Pierrefonds-Roxboro | borough mayor |
Frantz Benjamin | Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension | city councillor, Saint-Michel |
Richard Bergeron | Ville-Marie | city councillor, Saint-Jacques |
Michèle Biron | Saint-Laurent | borough councillor, Norman-McLaren |
Michel Bissonnet | Saint-Léonard | borough mayor |
Christine Black | Montréal-Nord | borough mayor |
Karine Boivin Roy | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | city councillor, Louis-Riel |
Marie-Ève Brunet | Verdun | borough councillor, Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs |
Richard Celzi | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | city councillor, Tétraultville |
Harout Chitilian | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | city councillor, Bordeaux-Cartierville |
Catherine Clément-Talbot | Pierrefonds-Roxboro | city councillor, Cap-Saint-Jacques |
Jean-François Cloutier | Lachine | city councillor, Lachine |
Jacques Cohen | Saint-Laurent | borough councillor, Côte-de-Liesse |
Russell Copeman | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | borough mayor |
Alan DeSousa | Saint-Laurent | borough mayor |
Suzanne Décarie | Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | city councillor, Pointe-aux-Trembles |
Mary Deros | Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension | city councillor, Parc-Extension |
Pierre Desrochers | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | city councillor, Saint-Sulpice |
Gilles Déziel | Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | borough councillor, Pointe-aux-Trembles |
Michelle Di Genova Zammit | Anjou | borough councillor, Centre |
Érika Duchesne | Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie | city councillor, Vieux-Rosemont |
Éric Dugas | L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | borough councillor, Sainte-Geneviève |
Marc-André Gadoury | Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie | city councillor, Étienne-Desmarteau |
Pierre Gagnier | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | borough mayor |
Manon Gauthier | Verdun | city councillor, Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs |
Jean-Marc Gibeau | Montréal-Nord | city councillor, Ovide-Clermont |
Yves Gignac | Pierrefonds-Roxboro | borough councillor, Cap-Saint-Jacques |
Richard Guay | Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | city councillor, La Pointe-aux-Prairies |
Manuel Guedes | Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | borough councillor, La Pointe-aux-Prairies |
Patricia Lattanzio | Saint-Léonard | city councillor, Saint-Léonard-Est |
Elsie Lefebvre | Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension | city councillor, Villeray |
Pierre L'Heureux | Verdun | borough councillor, Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs |
Sylvia Lo Bianco | Montréal-Nord | borough councillor, Ovide-Clermont |
Réal Ménard | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | borough mayor |
Francesco Miele | Saint-Laurent | city councillor, Côte-de-Liesse |
Lorraine Pagé | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | city councillor, Sault-au-Récollet |
Jean-François Parenteau | Verdun | borough mayor |
Lionel Perez | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | city councillor, Darlington |
Dominic Perri | Saint-Léonard | city councillor, Saint-Léonard-Ouest |
Nathalie Pierre-Antoine | Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles | borough councillor, Rivière-des-Prairies |
Marie Potvin | Outremont | borough councillor, Robert-Bourassa |
Giovanni Rapanà | Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles | city councillor, Rivière-des-Prairies |
Monica Ricourt | Montréal-Nord | borough councillor, Marie-Clarac |
Chantal Rossi | Montréal-Nord | city councillor, Marie-Clarac |
Chantal Rouleau | Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles | borough mayor |
Aref Salem | Saint-Laurent | city councillor, Norman-McLaren |
Anie Samson | Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension | borough mayor |
Kimberley Simonyik | Lachine | borough councillor, Fort-Rolland |
Lili-Anne Tremblay | Saint-Léonard | borough councillor, Saint-Léonard-Est |
Monique Vallée | LaSalle | city councillor, Cecil-P.-Newman |
Former
The following incumbent councillors affiliated with Équipe Denis Coderre in 2013 during the preceding council, but did not run or were defeated in the 2013 election.
Councillor | Borough | Position |
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Pierre Fréchette | Le Sud-Ouest | borough councillor, Saint-Henri–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles |
Helen Fotopulos | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | city councillor, Côte-des-Neiges |
Ana Nunes | Outremont | borough councillor, Jeanne-Sauvé |
2017 elections
Denis Coderre also contested the Montreal municipal elections in 2017 under the name Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. On losing the 2017 municipal election, Denis Coderre left municipal politics. To disassociate themselves from their resigning leader, the party known as Équipe Denis Coderre first declared an intention to change its name to "Mouvement Montréal", but failed to register the name before making the announcement, allowing a third party to quickly reserve the name for themselves.[7][8]
Thus, the party had to come up with another new name and changed to "Ensemble Montréal."[9]
Councillors
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Following the 2017 municipal election, Équipe Denis Coderre held the following seats on Montreal City Council and borough councils.
Councillor | Borough | Position |
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Dimitrios Jim Beis | Pierrefonds-Roxboro | borough mayor |
Michèle Biron | Saint-Laurent | borough councillor, Norman-McLaren |
Michel Bissonnet | Saint-Léonard | borough mayor |
Jacques Cohen | Saint-Laurent | borough councillor, Côte-de-Liesse |
Alan DeSousa | Saint-Laurent | borough mayor |
Mary Deros | Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension | city councillor, Parc-Extension |
Lionel Perez | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | city councillor, Darlington |
Aref Salem | Saint-Laurent | city councillor, Norman-McLaren |
Former
The following incumbent councillors elected under the Ensemble Montréal formation are no longer part of it.
Councillor | Borough | Position |
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Hadrien Parizeau | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | city councillor, Saint-Sulpice |
References
- ^ "Denis Coderre, aspirant maire". Radio-Canada, November 9, 2012.
- ^ a b "Borough mayor Lionel Perez joins Coderre’s party". The Gazette, July 30, 2013.
- ^ "Philippe Schnobb se joint à l'équipe de Denis Coderre". Le Devoir, June 19, 2013.
- ^ "Mairie de Montréal: le président de l'Assemblée joint l'équipe Coderre". Le Journal de Montréal, August 2, 2013.
- ^ "Denis Coderre unveils eight more candidates for his party". The Gazette, June 17, 2013.
- ^ "City councillor Harout Chitilian joins Denis Coderre". The Gazette, August 2, 2013.
- ^ http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201712/22/01-5148106-equipe-denis-coderre-se-cherche-encore-un-nouveau-nom.php
- ^ https://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/english/municipal/rapeq/consultation-reserved-names.php
- ^ L'Opposition officielle se nomme désormais « Ensemble Montréal »