{"id":3066,"date":"2013-11-02T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:50:02","slug":"laval-mayoralty-candidates-debate-coops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/laval-mayoralty-candidates-debate-coops\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval Mayoralty Candidates Debate Coops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven said they\u2019d be there, but in the end, only four candidates for Laval mayor participated in a debate about cooperatives last week.<\/p>\n

The event was organized by the Regional Development Cooperative of Montreal-Laval (http:\/\/www.cdr.coop\/<\/a>), the Federation of Inter-municipal Housing Cooperatives (FECHIMM) (http:\/\/www.fechimm.coop\/english\/<\/a>)\u00a0and the GRT R\u00e9seau 2000+ de Laval (http:\/\/www.reseau2000plus.qc.ca\/<\/a>). It took place last Thursday morning from 10 until 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know what happened, but we thought they\u2019d all be here,\u201d said Francyne Morin, spokesperson for the Regional Development Cooperative of Montreal-Laval, which helps entrepreneurs set up businesses using the cooperative model. \u201cWe need whoever becomes mayor to understand the importance of our sector. It doesn\u2019t make sense that more than 800 cooperatives exist in Montreal and yet only 42 have been established in Laval.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Based on their comments during the debates, the cooperative movement is well understood by Nouveau Parti des Lavallois\u2019s Guy Landry, Movement Lavallois\u2019s Marc Demers and independent candidates Jacques Foucher and Marc-Aur\u00e8le Racicot. All four spoke about how important coops are for jobs, long-term employment, employee satisfaction, economic resilience and community involvement.<\/p>\n

Several candidates mentioned specific ways to promote the sector. Foucher suggested creating a municipal development office specifically for coops. Landry spoke about limiting government red tape. Demers said that something has to be done to lessen the prejudice that city officials have towards those who choose the cooperative model and said that he is open to assigning people to promote coops within government.<\/p>\n

Racicot spoke about the need to treat all entrepreneurs equally, regardless of which model they choose\u2014independent workers, franchisee, corporations or coops.<\/p>\n

Parti au Service du Citoyen\u2019s Robert Bordeleau intended to be there, but he said his 90-year old mother had a little problem and he had to go see her instead. He has a Facebook page at\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FuturMaireDeLaval<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither Action Laval\u2019s Jean-Claude Gob\u00e9 nor Option Laval\u2019s Claire Le Bel attended.<\/p>\n

*Note: This story was published in the Laval Edition of the Suburban on Wednesday, October 30 and online at\u00a0http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/article.php?id=2254&title=Laval-Mayoralty-Candidates-Debate-Co-ops<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven said they\u2019d be there, but in the end, only four candidates for Laval mayor participated in a debate about cooperatives last week. The event was organized by the Regional Development Cooperative of Montreal-Laval (http:\/\/www.cdr.coop\/), the Federation of Inter-municipal Housing Cooperatives (FECHIMM) (http:\/\/www.fechimm.coop\/english\/)\u00a0and the GRT R\u00e9seau 2000+ de Laval (http:\/\/www.reseau2000plus.qc.ca\/). It took place last Thursday […]<\/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":"","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":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hundredmilecircle","category-politics-that-matter","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-Ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17614,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/floods\/","url_meta":{"origin":3066,"position":0},"title":"Floods join stories about Crawford Bridge School, construction etc.","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Floods are on everyone's mind right now. 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