Bordeleau sets sights on 2009 municipal election

A candidate himself in Laval-des-Rapides in several past elections, Mr. Bordeleau confirms that he has already lined up a team of candidates for other districts. These candidates were not at the press conference and the new leader declined to identify who they are. "Our team is well-stocked," he stated, adding that he's still in the process of recruiting.

In his invitation to the media, Robert Bordeleau promised that he would reveal a scandal. "Ville de Laval has not had a single city councilor in opposition for the past 22 years. There's the scandal," he stated.

When informed by a journalist that this statement was inaccurate because it's only been since 2001 that there's been no opposition on city council, Mr. Bordeleau answered: "From 1997 to 2001, there were four councilors in opposition. But in this scenario, the opposition cannot bring about change. I don't consider this to be an opposition. Provincially, there's a real opposition because there is a minority government."

The leader of the Parti au service du citoyen blasted the Vaillancourt administration on several points. "We have a man who plants trees but at ramps leading to autoroutes," he stated. "After allowing our forests to be cut to nothing and our humid spaces to be filled, we've become known throughout Quebec not as the city of a thousand and one nights but as the city of a thousand and one shopping centres."