The official start of campaigning for the next Montreal municipal election begins Friday. But things are already heating up with mayoral debates and a high-profile departure in a major party campaign.

Earlier this week, the campaign manager for Projet Montréal, Julie Bélanger, left her position to join Transition Montréal, the new party founded by mayoral candidate and city councillor Craig Sauvé.

“When she reached out to me after having left Projet Montréal, I did not take half a second to say ‘yes, absolutely I want to work with you,’” Sauvé said.

“She will be coordinating top-level decision making at our party and top-level strategy. So she’s one of my most important confidants,” he added.

Ensemble Montréal party leader and mayoral candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada reacted to Bélang

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