On May 9, a little over five months after having been named the party’s interim leader, Richard Deschamps notified the Chief Electoral Officer that he was handing in his resignation. He also submitted a resolution requesting the withdrawal of Union Montr\u00e9al’s authorization. The resolution, however, stipulated that the party should keep certain sums in trust to provide for the party’s legal representation before the Charbonneau commission.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A month later, the Chief Electoral Officer says he notified the party that their request to keep some funds following the withdrawal of its authorization was legally inadmissible, “the AERM being clear about the\u00a0 obligation to hand over all of the party’s sums and assets once authorization is withdrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n
When they found out that money could not be set aside indefinitely if the party dissolved, administrators of Union Montreal withdrew Deschamps\u2019 request for dissolution and requested that the party continue operating.<\/p>\n
Drouin asked them to fulfil a number of conditions to keep the party operating. He cites their refusal to satisfy these demands to his satisfaction when explaining why he withdrew official authorization of the party November 12.<\/p>\n
His ruling specified that remaining party funds be turned over to him. That should have been done on Sunday, November 24.<\/p>\n
Instead, Union Montreal lawyers responded by applying to Quebec Superior Court to block his decision.<\/p>\n
The judge will decide tomorrow who\u2019s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Update The case was heard on November 22. If I understand the judgement properly at\u00a0http:\/\/www.jugements.qc.ca\/php\/decision.php?liste=73435914&doc=962941F3B1F35BE925EA39BA5816C414AF50BDF1B836BFC80B580AF3E388CCCC&page=1, Drouin won but three days later, Judge Marie-France Bich decided that the Court of Appeal will hear arguments about why the original judgement should be set aside. That decision is number\u00a0500-09-024026-130 and it appears at: http:\/\/www.jugements.qc.ca\/php\/decision.php?liste=73435914&doc=944B4E6FFA677AFF20E8042F8D318D54339470B4CB0805898BFEA2618E922B0A&page=1 —————————————————- Former political members […]<\/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":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasalleposts","category-politics-that-matter","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-P5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1163,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/wo-day-eviction\/","url_meta":{"origin":3167,"position":0},"title":"Two-Day Eviction for Low-Income Senior","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"December 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Lasalle\u2014On Monday, November 28, one of the tenants in the low-income seniors building at 760 Gamelin came home to find an envelope attached the door handle with an elastic band. 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