Previously a member of the Union Montreal municipal party, he left and joined Vision Montréal following a dispute with Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay. Following this, Tremblay prevailed upon the Quebec government to abolish the position of Ville-Marie borough mayor as a separate elected position, merging it with the office of mayor of Montreal.
Labonté remained leader of Montreal's opposition party, Vision Montreal, until the municipal election of November 2009, when he resigned in favour of Louise Harel for mayor, running instead for city council in the district of Sainte-Marie. On October 17, 2009 he resigned as head of the official opposition after published reports of him taking $100,000 from Montreal developer Tony Accurso to fund is bid.[4][5]
^"Former PQ cabinet minister Harel seeks Montreal mayor's job". CBC.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
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^Fabrice de Pierrebourg (2009-09-30). "Mystérieuse rencontre "privée" entre Tony Accurso et Benoît Labonté". RueFrontenac.com. Retrieved 1 November 2009..
^Clément, Éric (16 October 2009), Tony Accurso aurait financé Benoît Labonté, La Presse, retrieved 1 November 2009
benoît, labonté, born, december, 1959, city, councillor, with, vision, montréal, party, montreal, quebec, canada, mayor, borough, ville, marie, until, 2009, favour, merger, montreal, island, municipalities, into, megacity, labonté, former, head, board, trade, . Benoit Labonte born 28 December 1959 was a city councillor with the Vision Montreal party in Montreal Quebec Canada He was the mayor of the borough of Ville Marie until 2009 He was in favour of the merger of all Montreal Island municipalities into the megacity 1 Labonte a former head of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal is a Canadian federalist 2 He once worked as an aide to former finance minister Paul Martin of the Liberal Party of Canada 3 Previously a member of the Union Montreal municipal party he left and joined Vision Montreal following a dispute with Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay Following this Tremblay prevailed upon the Quebec government to abolish the position of Ville Marie borough mayor as a separate elected position merging it with the office of mayor of Montreal Labonte remained leader of Montreal s opposition party Vision Montreal until the municipal election of November 2009 when he resigned in favour of Louise Harel for mayor running instead for city council in the district of Sainte Marie On October 17 2009 he resigned as head of the official opposition after published reports of him taking 100 000 from Montreal developer Tony Accurso to fund is bid 4 5 References edit Harel plans to reopen megacity can of worms Archived from the original on 2009 06 08 Former PQ cabinet minister Harel seeks Montreal mayor s job CBC ca Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2009 06 04 Retrieved 2009 06 04 Gyulai Linda 2009 06 04 With Harel all bets are off The Montreal Gazette Archived from the original on 2009 06 07 Retrieved 2009 06 04 Fabrice de Pierrebourg 2009 09 30 Mysterieuse rencontre privee entre Tony Accurso et Benoit Labonte RueFrontenac com Retrieved 1 November 2009 Clement Eric 16 October 2009 Tony Accurso aurait finance Benoit Labonte La Presse retrieved 1 November 2009External links edit FR Official website permanent dead link FR Profile page nbsp This article about a mayor in Quebec is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Benoit Labonte amp oldid 1206406575, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
