City Council: Projet Montreal

Projet Montreal: I think we need good people involved in city government and thats why I'm presenting myself, said the Projet Montreal candidate, according to CTV. Rotrand has been pushing for Montreal to hire more members of minority groups and visible minorities, and feels the council itself needs to better reflect Montreal's diversity and A 34-year-old native Quebecer of Scottish-Italian and Pakistani origin, Sameer Zuberi wants to be the new face of city council for the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough. People from 54 different cultural communities live in the A Ma Baie-Cloverdale area he hopes to represent. A look at the current Montreal city council, however, and it's almost as if areas like A Ma Baie don't exist. There are three city councillors of visible minority out of the 65-member council and in the borough councils a total of 103 elected councillors. Other than that, the councils essentially white, said Marvin Rotrand, a long-time councillor in the Cote-des-Neiges-NDG borough running under the Coalition Montreal ticket. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.