Dear Montrealers,

As you know, the main reason I decided to come here to run for mayor is because I'm concerned about my City, a city we all cherish. It’s also because we've reached an important crossroads.

We must absolutely restart Montréal!

The last few years have been catastrophic: the trust between Montrealers and their mayor is severed; an underlying wait-and-see attitude has settled into every corner of the City, the municipal Administration is unhinged and never have Montréal’s leaders taken so little responsibility for their actions and decisions. There is an urgent need for leadership at Montréal's city hall. The courage to decide and assume responsibility for these decisions must be reasserted in Montréal.

The first task the Harel-Lampron Administration shall tackle along with the entire team of candidates at Vision Montréal is to restore trust. During their eight years in power, the Tremblay-Zampino Administration has fed progress's worst enemy: cynicism, through corruption, collusion, back-scratching and seven police investigations, of which six are still ongoing—a first in Montréal's history!

Montrealers want an honest mayor, someone entirely devoted to their interests and who does so ethically, with transparency and integrity. As soon as we arrive at city hall, we will set up an Office of Municipal Ethics, headed by an independent ethics Commissioner, delegated with extensive investigative responsibility and the means to implement it.

The outgoing administration got rid of the City's proper functioning, and tried to hold back the cities that had already chosen to leave us. The result is no secret to anyone: a veritable mumble jumble of structures and a notable absence of common direction. We have lost our sense of the City, our sense of Montréal.

I have an opportunity to run with a team that combines experience, skills and unwavering will to work without respite to grant Montrealers their greatest wish: to once again be proud of their city because of its accomplishments, efficiency and exemplary ethical management standards.

I am presenting you with a program that is clear, concrete and pragmatic. Our plan does not just offer wishful or pie in the sky thinking; it describes the actions we will take from day one of a Vision Montréal victory. We know this city, we passionately love it and we too want to have all the reasons in the world to be proud of it.

I'm inviting all of you to join us in showing the door to those seeking personal gain and to work with the thousands of Montrealers who have chosen to act positively to help Montréal get back on track.

Together, let's be proud Montrealers again!
Together let’srestart Montréal!

Vision Montréal leader,

Louise Harel

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