{"id":16962,"date":"2016-01-14T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16962"},"modified":"2016-02-14T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T04:26:09","slug":"trottier-reserves-name-for-new-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/trottier-reserves-name-for-new-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Trottier reserves name for new party"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>Independent Laval councillors Michel Trottier and Pierre Anthian are cooperating to create a new political party in time for the next elections in November 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we do nothing, we\u2019re going to arrive in 2017 with only one party as we were at the time of Vaillancourt,\u201d said Trottier. \u201cI think that Laval citizens need a choice. When you look at the current situation in Laval, there is the Mouvement Lavallois [Marc Demers\u2019 party] that is very well organized, but there\u2019s nothing else. There\u2019s Action Laval that has one councillor and no membership.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Trottier will function as the leader, but they\u2019re looking for something with more experience to take on that role permanently.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichel and me, we have lots of good volunteer energy and we make good councillors but becoming mayor requires someone with more experience and a good history of leading lots of people,\u201d said Anthian. \u201cI\u2019m a good soldier, but I\u2019m not a general.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trottier applied to reserve the name \u201cParti Laval\u201d on November 17. He has until May 17 to officially establish the party with a list of at least 100 members, a board of directors and a schedule of activities.<\/p>\n

Trottier says that he, Anthian and 13 local leaders will meet on January 19 to finalize a board of directors and establish a calendar for the next few months. They already have 100 people who have signed on as members, and they\u2019re planning to hold a general meeting in February.<\/p>\n

Political operative Emilio Migliozzi floated the idea of a party called Evolution Laval on his Twitter feed last month, but he hasn\u2019t taken any official action since then and says he\u2019ll stay in the background until he sees how things evolve over the next few months.<\/p>\n

Independent councillors Alain Lecompte and Jean Coupal are also holding off until they see a new leader and stronger vision for the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independent Laval councillors Michel Trottier and Pierre Anthian are cooperating to create a new political party in time for the next elections in November 2017. \u201cIf we do nothing, we\u2019re going to arrive in 2017 with only one party as we were at the time of Vaillancourt,\u201d said Trottier. \u201cI think that Laval citizens need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Trottier reserves name for new party","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hundredmilecircle","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4pA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18340,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lorne-trottier\/","url_meta":{"origin":16962,"position":0},"title":"Lorne Trottier\u2019s Ever-Expanding Universe","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"[thrive_link color='blue' link='[https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/TraceyArial\/unapologetically-canadian-episode-17-lorne-trottiers-technological-and-scientific-exploration]] Listen to Unapologetically Episode 17: Lorne Trottier[\/thrive_link] If there\u2019s anyone who knows how to use the study of science for the benefit of humans, it\u2019s Lorne Trottier Trottier's childhood passion for electro-magnetic technology has him to create: a multi-national company, a building on the McGill campus, two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/e-TROTTIER-LorneFall-2006.jpg?fit=360%2C453&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1270,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/laval-city-council-in-turmoil\/","url_meta":{"origin":16962,"position":1},"title":"Laval City Council in Turmoil","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The goings on in Laval City Council have been hard to follow. 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