Vision Montréal
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Vision Montreal
Vision Montréal |
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| Former municipal party | |
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| Founded | April 19, 1994 |
| Dissolved | April 10, 2014 |
| Headquarters | 3430, rue Saint-Denis, bureau 300 Montreal, Quebec H2X 3L3 |
| Youth wing | Comité jeunesse de Vision Montréal |
| Ideology |
Progressivism, Environmentalism, Localism Internal factions: • Local government consolidation • Quebec nationalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
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Vision Montreal (French: Vision Montréal or VM) was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1994 and dissolved in April 2014. Between 2001 and 2013 it formed the official opposition on Montreal City Council.
Vision Montreal was established in 1994 to promote the candidacy of the director of the Montreal Botanical Garden and then rising political star Pierre Bourque for Mayor of Montreal.
Bourque was elected Mayor against incumbent Jean Doré in 1994, with 39 of his candidates elected to Montreal City Council. In 1998, he and his team were re-elected for a second term.
The Bourque administration is credited with the following:
Pierre Bourque was criticized for his perceived lack of flexibility. During his first term, he suffered a mutiny within his party. Fifteen of his councillors left his administration to sit as Independents. By August 1997, only a minority of city council members (24 out of 51) were members of Vision Montreal.
Furthermore, the merger was met with so much resistance from residents and politicians of Montreal's predominantly English-speaking West Island that by 2005 fifteen municipalities had demerged from the city centre. After it had reached 1.8 million people, the population of Montreal was reduced to 1.6 million residents.
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