‘We’re proud’: Ensemble Montréal’s Doug Hurley elected mayor of Île-Bizard
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Ensemble Montréal took a victory lap at Montreal city hall on Monday after it won the byelection this weekend in Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève.
Ensemble Montréal took a victory lap at Montreal city hall on Monday after it won the byelection this weekend in Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève.
“We’re proud as a team,” said Aref Salem, Ensemble Montréal’s leader.
The party’s candidate, Doug Hurley, won by a landslide.
“The reason we got four votes out five is because the population backed our ideas about being more community involved,” Hurley said.
Hurley says his priorities include the completion of the Jacques-Bizard Bridge, and implementing mitigation measures to deal with traffic chaos in the area.
“Right now, living in those conditions, we need more security, help with traffic control,” Hurley said.
Hurley has been a resident of Île-Bizard for 37 years. He is president of the Île-Bizard Optimist Club, a community organization. He was a police officer for more than three decades and is now a police instructor at John Abbott College.
“When we hear of an individual that has devoted most of his adult life to community in every capacity, certainly that can benefit us here, we can collaborate and we will collaborate on issues such as the floods,” said Jim Beis, borough mayor of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
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