Pressure mounts for legal transparency in Montreal politics

The time for secrets could be over soon in Montreal politics.

In a report by the Gazette, a former Montreal city councilor told the paper on Thursday that legal transparency at Montreal city hall should be a priority to the provincial government.

Richard Théorêt says that legislating transparency at the municipal level will bring an end or deal a blow to possible corruption and collusion.

Théorêt has been campaigning for executive committee meetings to be public. Interim mayor Michael Applebaum made that possible when he took office in November following Gerard Tremblay’s abrupt resignation.

Public servants and city councilors have been under the microscope over their involvement in the corruption and collusion scandal rocking Quebec’s construction industry.

Executive committee meetings once  held behind closed doors was the floor where city contracts were handed out and anything involving city policy is hammered out.

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