Côte St. Luc VOTE BY MAIL FOR 70+ PASSES, UMQ BLASTED: Côte St. Luc council voted, as have some other municipal councils, to enable voters 70 and older to vote by mail in this Novemberâs municipal election, as allowed by a new Quebec law Bill 85 and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. All councillors seconded the motion. But Councillor Mike Cohen, who worked on the file, blasted the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ), calling what he said was their near inaction âshameful. âTheyâre supposed to represent us,â the councillor said. âI tried to communicate with the president, who is the Mayor of some tiny little hamlet somewhere in Quebec and she did not really respond. They went to the National Assembly, they basically barely said a word, they didnât speak up. We wanted this to be available to anyone who wanted to vote by mail, because as we can see, more than a year ago, everyone thought the pandemic would be long over by then. If you look at whatâs going on in Ontario right now, we have no idea what itâs going to be like in the fall.... If we think life is going to be back to normal in the fall, through vaccinations or not, I donât believe it. The UMQ totally failed us, and when it comes up to renewal [of our membership], I want to take a look at what they do for us. They [also] donât have anything on their website in English.â