On more than one occasion, Coderre has presented facts and figures that were later proven false. The claims range from allegations that Montreal’s credit rating was going down (it isn’t) to Montreal having “400 shoot-outs” when discussing gun violence (it has not).
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Both frontrunners in the Montreal mayoral race were caught in embarrassing situations over the weekend, but we’re only still talking about one of them.
Mayor Valérie Plante was photographed with too many people wearing too few masks on a newly opened restaurant terrasse, a violation of just eased public health rules. She quickly apologized for making a mistake and everyone just as swiftly moved on.
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Former mayor Denis Coderre was snapped in his SUV where he appeared to be looking at his smartphone while stopped at a red light, a contravention of traffic laws. Since then he has made the rounds of radio and TV talk shows denying he had done anything wrong, explaining that his phone had fallen and he was just picking it up to secure it again, complaining that the imbroglio is a distraction from the real
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