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Decision 2012 - NDG, Westmount-Saint-Louis, Outremont
NDG Liberal MNA Kathleen Weil once again demonstrated how and why she sits on the right hand side of the Premier’s cabinet table. Weil used her final hours as Quebec’s Minister of Immigration to convince the Canadian Immigration department to allow little Cheyenne Robion’s family to stay in the country while the little girl recovered from the chemotherapy she required to treat her blood-borne cancer.
“That’s why people are going to vote for her,” said NDG’s Robert Chagnon. “Weil works hard and she deserves their vote.”
Even so, the CAQ (Coalition pour l’Avenir du Québec) has put up Angely Pacis as its candidate in the rising. Born in Toronto, Pacis moved to Montreal, learned French after which she went to the Université de Montréal for a law degree. Following her graduation, she quickly became a specialist in aboriginal issues and now runs her own office with a special interest in immigration. “I knew that this would be a serious challenge,” Pacis told The Suburban.
Aside from a picture and a short biography on the Parti Québécois website, nobody has heard nor seen young Olivier Simard, the PQ candidate in NDG.
As for Westmount-Saint-Louis, no news is still good news for former Assembly speaker Liberal Jacques Chagnon. Aside from a few posters of PQ leader Pauline Marois, there’s no sign of PQ candidate Marc-André Bahl. As Chagnon is already well known as a political veteran who knows how to get things done in Quebec’s National Assembly, some residents are looking forward to the local debate just to see if young Johnny Kairouz , who is the CAQ candidate in Westmount-Saint-Louis, can hold his own.
Outremont’s Raymond Bachand not only shares a desk with the Premier in Québec’s National Assembly, he is also one of the most visible and respected ministers.Apart from his stellar resume which includes a Harvard degree and more than his fair share of high-level corporate experience, many observers believe the man deserves his place as one of the most powerful ministers ever to sit around the premier’s cabinet table. .Bachand is facing the CAQ’s Claude Michaud who has a business background in stark constrast to the statist, not to mention separatist, policies of the Parti Québecois. The PQ is fielding Roxanne Gendron. n
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