{"id":1665,"date":"2013-10-16T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/16\/two-more-hopefuls-eye-mayors-office\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:34","slug":"two-more-hopefuls-eye-mayors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/16\/two-more-hopefuls-eye-mayors-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more hopefuls eye mayor\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Two more individuals have plunged into the municipal election campaign, giving Laval voters a total of nine candidates for the mayor\u2019s office to choose from when they go to the polls, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

After Elections Quebec closed nominations, Oct. 4, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Goupil Nantel and R\u00e9gent Millette appeared on the Municipal Affairs Ministry\u2019s list of mayoral hopefuls.<\/p>\n

They will be joining Jacques Foucher and Marc-Aur\u00e8le Racicot in running as independents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have worked at the federal, provincial and municipal level,\u201d said Goupil Nantel, who told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview that she has been actively involved in politics for nearly a quarter-century, \u201cstarting with former federal Immigration Minister Lise Bacon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The well-being of Laval\u2019s underprivileged is of particular interest to Goupil Nantel, who has Norwegian roots.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing poor can be very dangerous,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n
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Goupil Nantel started her career very young, as a secretary, and went on to work for Sunoco and a Norwegian company that supplied heavy equipment for the James Bay project. She added that she worked as a part-time substitute teacher for the Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board from 1980-2003, and sings in English every Wednesday in a local choir.<\/p>\n

The Suburban<\/i> met up with serial candidate R\u00e9gent Millette, who was handing out his one-page r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in front of city hall, just before the Oct. 3 city council meeting. <\/p>\n

Millette, who turned 78, Sept. 14, ran against Gilles Vaillancourt for mayor in 2005 and 2009. He has also made as many as two-dozen other bids to get elected during federal, provincial and municipal campaigns, running either as an independent or for the fringe Parti d\u00e9mocrate chr\u00e9tienne du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/i><\/p>\n

In his statement Millette pledged, if elected, to deposit the mayor\u2019s salary to his Fondation internationale Famille R\u00e9gent Millette<\/i> (FIFRM), whose goal, he stated, was to \u201cprovide drinking water to the planet.\u201d <\/p>\n

Quebec government documents show that until 2002, Millette operated a registered company that provided \u201ccasting\u201d and \u201cparalegal services\u201d. <\/p>\n

FIFRM, which he runs together with \u00c9ric and David Millette, is still in operation. According to a separate set of documents, it is a federally registered non-profit \u201cpersonal association\u201d whose objective is \u201cto provide financial assistance to underprivileged countries to supply drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, no record could be found on the federal web site of it having earned official recognition as a charity.<\/p>\n

Millette has not responded to several subsequent requests for an interview during the course of last week.<\/p>\n

The remaining five candidates for mayor are all campaigning on official political party slates: Robert Bordeleau (Parti au Service du Citoyen),<\/i> Marc Demers (Mouvement lavallois),<\/i> Jean-Claude Gob\u00e9 (Action Laval), Guy Landry (Nouveau Parti des Lavallois)<\/i> and Claire Le Bel (Option Laval).<\/p>\n

The Laval Chamber of Commerce and Industry has invited the fivesome to participate in an election debate, but has excluded all four independent candidates from the political discourse. <\/p><\/div>\n

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