Montreal’s new mayor, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, has set an ambitious program for her first 100 days in office, including: a “mayors’ table” to ensure better services across the city; measures to alleviate the homelessness and the housing crises; and an “optimization process” to make municipal public service more effective.

However, the issues the new Ensemble Montréal administration needs to address are far too complex to be solved in a few weeks or months.

To replace Valérie Plante, Montrealers chose a woman they don’t know very well but has significant political experience at the municipal and federal levels. Martinez Ferrada demonstrated her political skills by taking over Denis Coderre’s former party and transforming it into an effective election machine.

She ran a competent, if not

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