Michael Applebaum: Executive Committee

Richard Deschamps Dept: While the party s candidate for interim mayor had seemed likely to march towards a coronation, he is now being challenged by the party s former No. 2: Michael Applebaum, according to CTV. On Wednesday afternoon, Union s choice for interim mayor Richard Deschamps adopted nearly all of Applebaum s positions, yielding to increase taxes by only 2.2 per cent and even allowing for opposition members to join the executive committee in a coalition. and mONTREAL In the week and a half since Mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned, the party he helped create has struggled to hang on. On Wednesday, six councillors left Union Montreal and ended the party s majority at city hall. On Friday, Applebaum quit as the chair of the city s powerful executive committee. The high-profile departure came after Applebaum was snubbed as Union s choice for interim mayor. Brandishing a report on corruption he claimed the council had voted to conceal, Applebaum also cited the committee s preference for a 3.3 per cent tax increase as his reasons for leaving. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.