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promised five hundred units of social and co-operative housing and a task force on public transformation, and said that he would not promote expensive mega-projects. On labour issues, he promised not to lay off blue-collar workers and to reassign municipal service workers by geographical area rather than department. Duchesneau promoted socially liberal views, and his party's candidates included anti-poverty activists and representatives of the city's
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Duchesneau focused
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Duchesneau remained as party leader after the election and said that
Nouveau Montréal would continue despite its defeat. In March 1999, he confirmed that he intended to be the party's candidate the next election, which was then scheduled for in 2002. During the same period, Duchesneau said that he
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The party held its first convention on 28 June 1998, attended by at least six hundred people. At this meeting, Duchesneau promised to focus on cleaning up the city's abandoned lots, create "district mayors" with responsibility for services like snow removal, and seek a new financial deal with the
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openly speculated that he might withdraw from the contest and either give his support to
Duchesneau or form an alliance between the two campaigns. Doré ultimately chose to remain a candidate. Duchneseau himself sought to create an alliance with
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Nouveau Montréal on 29 April 1998, shortly after standing down from a four-year term as the city's police director. At the time, public opinion polls in Montreal showed Duchesneau leading incumbent mayor
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and all other potential candidates for the position. Duchesneau's control of
Nouveau Montréal was never in question, and some critics charged that it was more his personal electoral vehicle than a proper political party.
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provincial government. He later promised to freeze municipal taxes for four years by cutting some municipal services.
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