Mayor Gerarld Tremblay Overview

Speaking of political uproar : This is our new Montreal Logo to promote our wonderful city on international field.

The great Gerarld Tremblay thought our old logo needed reviving and didn't quite represent Montreal's presence and esteem. He spent two years and $487,000.00 on this project and came up with the image on the right.

Let's go back a while: our old logo, which caused terrible uproar from the community when its price was revealed, cost a wopping $15,000... I started a company a few years back, and when we incorporated, we ran into the same situation as Tremblay, we needed a Logo to promote our innovative ways. It took us 2 days and $9.98 in coffee to come up with it : Note that this logo worked marvels and no animals were injured in its making (not sure about Montreal's new "M" ... at least SOME jelly beans were tortured) But wait! we now have a budget deficit of $155M ! How could this have happened!?

Let's see : The city has a total of 37 lawyers to protect it from lawsuits (say, because of angry taxpayers are suing it for wasting 500K on logo design...), yet the city contracted out $1.4M to private lawyers last year alone, on frivolous spending by Outremont's burrow's officials. It's interesting how these lawyers were all politically well-connected people. Another instance had the city of montreal sell off property in the East end of Montreal valued at $33M to other certain "politically well-connected people" for only 4.4M ! quite a bargain! ...What woud YOU do for a 87% discount on 33 MILLION dollars?? How about when the City lost 8 million dollars on an alleged fraud last year? An independant inquisition found that the City was paying 10 firms for hours they've never worked. EIGHT MILLION ! who doesn't see these bills go through without asking what the hell they are paying for ?? Finally, there's the revolving door syndrome where city officials routinely "resign" to work for other companies. Interestingly enough, 94% of those now work for companies that the City contracts with?

For example, Frank Zampino, Robert Abdallah, and Yves Provost (yes, we are quite multiculturistic , we know!) were all working for the City of Montreal last year, yet this year they are working in different firms, all involved in the city's record-breaking contract of 335 Million dollars to "install and maintain water meters"... Let me underline that this is the biggest contract in our history! So maybe we should have a logo that says "Montreal - the city of the best water meters"Can you believe were are cutting on STM funds, and burrow budgets because of a $155M deficit (the provincial law forces each city to maintain a balanced budget), but we spent 335M on MAINTAINING water meters... (what the hell is a water meter anyway?) To conclude, recent polls found that Gerarld Tremblay is the most likely winner of next city elections by 82% ... This is what our mayor is working on right now:

• créer un aménagement qui met en valeur les verrières de l'artiste Marcelle Ferron aux abords de la station de métro Champ-de-Mars


• requalifier le mur est du Palais de justice


• concevoir un nouvel abribus


• développer une marque distinctive et une identité propre aux taxis montréalais concevoir le mobilier festivalier temporaire du Quartier des spectacles. (Of course, it's in French because he loves and respects his "nation"...)

So in the future, make sure you stop and look at our newly "qualified" wall on the Palais de justice.....

Andrew Banea
Montrealer