Ms. Louise Harel

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  Published on: 11/2/2009    Last Visited: 11/2/2009  

  Vision Montreal's Louise Harel, a former separatist minister, was the runner-up at 33 per cent.
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  Harel, who couldn't escape the stain of scandal either, said the campaign was worthy of reality TV.
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  As well, Harel forced her own right-hand man, Benoît Labonté, to resign for accepting cash from Accurso and lying about it.

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  Published on: 10/25/2009    Last Visited: 10/25/2009  

  Vision Montreal's Louise Harel says the central city should take control of things such as snow clearing, economic development, and urban planning.
  
  Harel says, it doesn't make sense for the boroughs to control all of those things, and adds it's not a betrayal of residents who voted in demerger referendums to stay in Montreal, because they were promised the boroughs would keep those powers.

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  Published on: 11/2/2009    Last Visited: 11/2/2009  

  Tremblay grabbed less than 40 per cent of the popular vote, but that was enough to defeat longtime Parti Quebecois minister Louise Harel and third-place finisher Richard Bergeron.
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  The polls had indicated a tight three-way race going into the vote but Tremblay and his well-financed Union Montreal party appeared to benefit from a split in the vote between Harel and Bergeron.
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  Harel, a member of the provincial legislature for more than 25 years before plunging into municipal politics, focused on the low turnout as she addressed her supporters.
  
  "I think we can be disappointed, legitimately disappointed, at the turnout," said Harel, who was hoping for a massive voter backlash against Tremblay to propel her to victory.
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  Harel, his 63-year-old separatist challenger, had trouble resonating with anglophone voters but came in promising to take a broom to city hall.

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  Published on: 10/12/2009    Last Visited: 10/13/2009  

  His main challenger is Louise Harel, a Parti Quebecois firebrand who earned the ire of the city's suburbanites and anglophones as the architect of unpopular municipal mergers when she was a minister.

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  Boisclair's statement followed a week in which his leadership was publicly criticized, a former cabinet minister called for his resignation in an open letter in Le Devoir and PQ member Louise Harel, who represents the Montreal riding of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, was rumoured to be planning a takeover of the party by Duceppe, the National Post reports.
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  Harel denied these rumours on Friday.

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  Published on: 11/2/2009    Last Visited: 11/2/2009  

  It's still a tight race in Rosemont-La Petite Patrie between candidates of Richard Bergeron's Projet Montreal and Louise Harel's Vision Montreal; that's where André Lavallée, Tremblay's vice chairman of the executive committee went down in flames.

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  Published on: 10/31/2009    Last Visited: 10/31/2009  

  A poll out Friday gives Vision Montreal's Louise Harel 34 percent support, Richard Bergeron from Projet Montreal 32 percent, and incumbent mayor Gerald Tremblay is now at 30 percent.
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  And David Hanna, a council candidate for Vision Montreal in the NDG district, vigorously defended against charges that his boss, Louise Harel, has dirty hands, too.
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  "Louise Harel has a 26-year-career.

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  Benoît Labonté is stepping aside as leader of Vision Montreal so that former PQ minister Louise Harel can run in his place for mayor of Montreal.
  
  I must say I'm surprised by this move. Not only does Labonté have a lot of ambition, but he's made his campaign for mayor all about him. The Vision Montreal website still links to his blog, which has his face plastered all over it and is now useless as a campaign website (which makes his assertion that his cause "isn't personal" absurd to the point of late-night comedy). They'll replace it by one from Louise Harel (who will hopefully hire Labonté's web designers instead of sticking with her current blog).
  
  I could criticize Harel on many points. She was the person who gave us the whole megacity disaster (fortunately for her, residents of Hampstead and Beaconsfield don't vote for Montreal's mayor), and she wants us to just forget all that, saying "there's no question of rekindling the debate.
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  The only thing that ties Labonté, Harel and Vision Montreal together seems to be the only point of the platform so far: A dislike of Gérald Tremblay.
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  It's something Labonté has supported and something Harel instituted with municipal mergers (though her bill created the mess in the first place).
  
  But that still leaves a lot of blank that can be filled in by almost anything (provided it can be sold as bold and audacious) before November. They could fill it with Projet Montréal's trams and greenery if they go through with a merger, as Harel hinted at.
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  Like with Labonté, I'm willing to give Harel the benefit of the doubt, and look forward to reading her platform if eventually it comes out.
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  UPDATE: Le Devoir agrees with me, asking why the left-wing Harel is uniting with the pro-business Labonté.
  
  16 comments Tags: Benoît Labonté, city hall, Louise Harel, Vision Montreal

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  Louise Harel at Vision Montreal's Citizen's Forum on Sept. 13.
  
  Leading in the polls and running to become Montreal's first female mayor, Louise Harel of Vision Montreal said all full-time students should have a more heavily discounted monthly transit pass.
  
  "The Fédération des associations étudiantes du campus de l'Université de Montréal proceeded to a referendum and 80 per cent of the student body voted in favour of paying the STM a certain amount of money for the marketing of a special monthly pass with lower fees," said Harel.
  
  Her party concluded a partnership with the FAECUM at the beginning of October that would have them provide all full-time students with a rebate on their monthly pass if they're elected.
  
  According to Harel, it is important that students use public transit to go to school or work, and that they be comfortable while travelling.
  
  "Mr. Labrecque [the president of the Société de transport de Montréal] blames me and Vision Montreal for making an announcement about a project he has worked on for so long now," said Harel. "But being in negotiations for over a year is unacceptable."
  
  Promising $200,000 to UdeM for the project-enough to pay for the physical printing of the new passes-Harel said that although she would like to extend the project to all the universities and CEGEPs in Montreal, the necessary investment could be prohibitive. Negotiation with the 19 CEGEPs and four universities in Montreal would be required before any steps could be taken.
  
  No metro station at Loyola campus
  
  "We haven't had any new metro station on the Montreal island for too long now," said Harel. "The metro needs new development and the government of Quebec's decision to continue the blue line east to Anjou is good news for the city."
  
  The party leader also supported the decision to loop the orange line from the station at Côte-Vertu to the Montmorency station in Laval-an idea also supported by the two other major parties.
  
  Harel said she didn't have any plan for any metro extension west of Snowdon towards Concordia's Loyola campus, but added that she was thinking of Concordia's students at Loyola in her plan for the building of a new Turcot interchange.
  
  Presumably, students could travel faster between the Sir George Williams and Loyola campuses because the shuttle bus could use a proposed lane on the new interchange reserved for public transit.
  
  The leader of Vision Montreal quickly dismissed the idea of tramways, saying that they would not be a productive way of spending time or energy.
  
  "They are another illusion from Richard Bergeron," Harel said of Project Montreal's ambitious plan for tramways.
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  "I think I have good relations with students," Harel said, but when asked about a possible visit to Concordia during the campaign, she asked if she would be welcomed on campus by the student body.
  
  Harel said that the English-language press was "intoxicated" with negative articles and columns about her and for that reason she had no plans to visit Concordia or McGill before election day.

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  Published on: 11/1/2009    Last Visited: 11/2/2009  

  Tremblay grabbed less than 40 per cent of the popular vote, but that was enough to defeat longtime Parti Quebecois minister Louise Harel and third-place finisher Richard Bergeron.
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  The polls had indicated a tight three-way race going into the vote but Tremblay and his well-financed Union Montreal party appeared to benefit from a split in the vote between Harel and Bergeron.
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  Harel, a member of the provincial legislature for more than 25 years before plunging into municipal politics, focused on the low turnout as she addressed her supporters.
  
  "I think we can be disappointed, legitimately disappointed, at the turnout," said Harel, who was hoping for a massive voter backlash against Tremblay to propel her to victory.
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  Harel, his 63-year-old separatist challenger, had trouble resonating with anglophone voters but came in promising to take a broom to city hall.
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  Gerald Tremblay and Louise Harel locked in battle for Montreal mayor's job
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  MONTREAL - Incumbent Gerald Tremblay and former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister Louise Harel were locked in a tight battle as results kept pouring in from the Montreal mayoral election on Sunday.

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