MONTREAL – After 40 years in politics, Verdun borough Mayor Claude Trudel announced his retirement on Monday morning, citing the “circus” surrounding defections from the Union Montreal party.
“Over past few weeks my Union Montreal was spared nothing at all in the need for a Big Cleanup and Grand Coalition.”
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He said that the forced departure of Montreal’s former mayor Gerald Tremblay left him “shaken beyond anything I could have imagined” and it was his “moral duty” to step down after Tremblay resigned.
Trudel noted that he has fundamental differences with Montreal’s new mayor Michael Applebaum on the direction he’s taking the city, saying that the “personal goals of many politicians are taking precedence over common good.”
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