Park Avenue Saved… by the Bourassas?
Just as I was getting used to the idea of living on Robo Avenue, Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay came to his senses: Park Avenue will no longer be renamed in honour of former Quebec premier Robert Bourassa. (You can follow the whole story in our archives.) In a statement yesterday afternoon that can only be described as passionless, Tremblay insisted that his intention was “solely to honour [Bourassa's] memory and never to generate controversy.” Apparently, the Bourassa family felt that the acrimony over Park Avenue’s renaming would tarnish Robert’s memory. The famously temperate premier would never have wanted to cause such discord, they told the mayor.
Word has it that Tremblay is now considering naming the new Pine-Park intersection after Robert Bourassa—an idea, you will remember, I wholeheartedly endorse.
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Nikolaos Karabineris says:
The Mayor looked upon the tens of thousands of names that were on the petitions with a blind eye and the cries of the people fell upon deaf ears. In the end, the only name that mattered was the one that appeared in the Montreal Gazette last week-end. That of the Bourassa family, had it not been for Francois Bourassa we would not be celebrating today. Long live the people! Long live Park Avenue!
February 10th, 2007 at 1:43 pm