The irony seemed to escape Mayor Gérald Tremblay, when he campaigned against Anne Myles in the Beaconsfield/Baie d’Urfé borough by-election on the grounds that she can’t speak French.
Myles ran on Tremblay’s ticket in the original election, and then later quit his party to run as an independent. Tremblay’s stung, and is trying to save his megacity against the demerger movement, which Myles staunchly supports, by pushing forth a decentralization vision.
I guess he doesn’t realize that the only reason Myles’ French ability is at issue in the first place is that predominantly anglophone Beaconsfield and Baie d’Urfé were forced to become part of this megacity.
Just demerge already and get it over with!