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No appeal to Supreme Court<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The long court challenge that has dogged Laval Mayor Marc Demers is now over.<\/p>\n

Jacques Foucher has decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, after the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court judgment that Demers is indeed eligible to hold office in Laval.<\/p>\n

Foucher ran unsuccessfully as Demers opponent in the 2013 municipal election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe file is over, the page has been turned,\u201d Foucher told\u00a0The Suburban.\u00a0<\/em>He declined to discuss the case any further.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it is not a political matter,\u201d he told the newspaper in a previous interview, May 29. \u201cWe appealed to ask the tribunal to examine the rules [that govern Quebec municipal elections].\u201d<\/p>\n

The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled, May 29, that Marc Demers was eligible to run for office when he was elected mayor in November 2013.<\/p>\n

The appeal justices upheld a December 2014 Quebec Superior Court judgment.<\/p>\n

Demers, who lived and worked in Laval throughout his life, successfully contended that his move to the Laurentians following his retirement was temporary, pending the acquisition of a new home in Laval.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it was the people of Laval voted Marc Demers to power,\u201d Laval executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis told\u00a0The Suburban.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cFrom our perspective, the case was closed when they voted for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have supported him throughout mandate citizens gave us,\u201d he said in an interview, \u201cso it\u2019s unfortunate that this [legal battle] has had to go on so long and that taxpayer money had to go to defend a case that had already been won by citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Cotis estimated that the legal bills to defend the case in court have cost city taxpayers $50,000-$70,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor Demers received a 100% confidence vote at the Mouvement lavallois party general assemblies in 2014 and 2015,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s positive in the sense that it indicates that he\u2019s doing a good job. It\u2019s only negative in the sense that it can only go down from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Laval Mayor Marc Demers<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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