The new Ombudsman’s Office members are: Anne Bélair, Jacques Bisaillon, Josée Cailloux, Claude Cartier, Yvette Gagnon, Josée Gaulin, André Labelle, Ronald Lapierre
Addressing Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt, Andrew Szirt said, “a very large percentage of residents are going to Montreal to hospital because you do not have a hospital in the western half of Lava
Robert Carrier, former Bloc Québécois MP for the riding of Alfred-Pellan who was defeated in the federal election last May, nearly got a lesson in parliamentary procedure when he attended Laval city council’s monthly meeting on Sept. 6.
Answering a resident’s question concerning allegations about the use of city funds for possibly partisan purposes, Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt said in city council earlier this week that there is currently no “investigation” by Quebec underway, but rather a “verification” whose results he eagerly awaits.
Laval city council’s meeting on May 2 was overrun by demonstrators forcefully demanding that elected officials break their contract with Berger Blanc, which is Laval’s official animal shelter.
As they do each first Monday of each month, members of Laval city council gathered at City Hall last April 4 to inform the population of current and future projects and to take questions about them
Despite all the media attention focused on Laval city council since the allegations made by Bloc MP Serge Ménard and Liberal MNA Vincent Auclair, council’s first session since then took place like any other meeting on Dec. 6.
During Laval city council’s regular monthly meeting held on Nov. 1, Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt tabled his report on the city’s financial situation for the year 2010.
Once again this year, the noted U.S. credit rating company, Standard & Poor's, gave Laval its AA rating with a stable outlook.