Declaration Against Vision Montreal Party is Deemed Inadmissible

On Tuesday an attempt by Mayor Gerald Tremblay’s administration to deem Vision Montreal incompetent was deemed inadmissible. The administration declared that Vision Montreal and it’s leader Louise Harel are incompetent and take Montrealers for imbeciles. The statement was withdrawn because of a procedural technicality. The motion calls that Harel and the party apologize to Montrealers for contempt of election financing laws.

In 2009 the party had taken out loan guarantees that had well exceeded the legal limit. Vision Montreal took out a total of three hundred and seventy thousand dollars in loan guarantees. Out of which the province reimbursed one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars .

Vision Montreal says the loan guarantees were taken out in error. The party also says that they were the ones who brought the violations forward to the chief electoral officer in the first place.

Tremblay’s party’s accusation is that Vision Montreal owes Montrealers the one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. The motion will be reintroduced in next month’s council meeting.