Luc Rabouin officially running for Projet Montréal leadership
Posted December 12, 2024 9:52 am.
Last Updated December 12, 2024 1:29 pm.
Plateau-Mont-Royal borough mayor Luc Rabouin officially announced that he is running for the leadership of Projet Montréal on Thursday.
Before becoming borough mayor in 2019, Rabouin worked as a manager at Desjardins for nearly nine years and held several management positions at the PME-Montréal centre-ville and Communauto France.
He’s also been the Chair of the Executive Committee for Projet Montréal since last year.
“With his many years of involvement and social commitment, as much on issues of social justice, economic democracy as ecological transition, he has had many opportunities to demonstrate that his deep values are expressed in his decisions and actions,” reads a press release.
With similar visions and values and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, Rabouin said that he has four priorities that he wants to focus on as the potential mayor: the housing crisis, the ecological transition, developing the East and offering better services.
“What has driven me since the beginning of my political involvement is to change things through concrete decisions and actions so that our city and our neighbourhoods are fairer, more inclusive and greener,” said Rabouin. “I will be the candidate of efficiency and pragmatism, by listening to the population without neglecting the boldness that Montreal needs. I still have a lot of energy and I have the same ambition to change things. I have strong values in terms of social justice and the environment and it’s a very huge opportunity to have an impact in the society.”
In the upcoming weeks, Rabouin will begin touring the various boroughs to meet with Montrealers to find out what the city needs.
“My commitment to Projet Montréal activists is to always defend with conviction the intrinsic values of social and environmental justice of our political party, which are also mine. I want to make sure that every Montrealer has a place to live, regardless of their income. To do this, it is necessary to increase the supply of non-market housing by developing new units and removing buildings from the speculative market.”
Rabouin added that environmentally, more development needs to be done including creating new sponge parks, nature spaces, and more bus lanes.
“I want to focus on public transit and buses for the next period that we have to address the challenges and encourage people to use the public transit. I don’t want them being jammed in traffic,” he said.
The application period is open until Jan. 31 and the Projet Montréal leadership race will officially begin on Feb. 3.
The election period will last nearly a month and a half, with election day taking place on March 15.
The deadline to join the party to vote as a member is on Feb. 13.
