Montreal Mayoral Candidates

Four candidates are going to fight for the Mayor's job.

Marcel Cote, Melanie Joly, Richard Bergeron and Denis Coderre.

Unfortunately, John Parisella pulled out.

Of the four, Cote and Joly, though long shots, stand out. Bergeron is just a kook while Coderre is a statist from the corrupt, Liberal party machine. Why would I want that transferred to city politics? He showed his colors during the Shane Doan affair seizing on the episode sans evidence. Choosing instead to opportunistically turn it into a language affair. A tactic not unlike clowns like Sharpton and Jackson.

Cote, 69, is the one that came closest to admitting and acknowledging Montreal is a bilingual city (something Bergeron refuses to do despite 35% of the city being Anglo) with French as the common language. Always find that caveat amusing. Anyway, he sounded quite progressive in a radio interview a few weeks back.

For her part, Joly came across as articulate and business like and a sort of "cross the t's and i's" kind of individual. But at 34 she seems to young to me.

The bottom line is as long as they're friendly to business, manage taxes better and lay off the language divide, they're worth a shot.