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November 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Michael Applebaum |
(Scroll down for video) The city of Montreal in Canada has gotten its first ever Jewish-English mayor after the former mayor suddenly resigned from office, according to news media reports.
The French-speaking city of Montreal elected an English speaking mayor Friday for the first time in 100 years, after the resignation of his predecessor over allegations of corruption.
Michael Applebaum, who is Jewish, won a council vote to serve as acting mayor for only one year, promising not to participate in the upcoming municipal elections of November 2013.
Applebaum speaks French, but it is not his first language. English speakers in the Canadian province of Quebec rarely occupy important political positions.
Because the former mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned last week, a year before the election, the provincial law states that his successor should be elected by the City Council on an interim basis.
Tremblay stepped down as a public inquiry heard testimony linking him to organized crime and corruption.
Martin Dumont, who worked for Tremblay’s Union Montreal party said the mayor knew of illegal funding of his political party and did not care.
Tremblay, mayor for 11 years, has denied any knowledge of the allegations and says he was disappointed by subordinates. There is no suggestion that he benefited personally and he said he was resigning to avoid difficulties for the city.
Frank Zampino, once a top aide of Tremblay, faces charges of fraud and current employees have been suspended.
Following the resignation of Tremblay, Gilles Vaillancourt, Mayor of Quebec the third largest
Canadian City resigned after 23 years as mayor of Laval, a suburb of Montreal.
Quebec, the only Canadian province with French as the official language, has struggled to maintain their linguistic identity despite demographic changes due to the immigrant population.
In Montreal, Canada’s second largest city with a population of 1.7 million, about 13 percent of people claim English as their mother tongue and the notion of an English-speaking mayor would have seemed unlikely just a few weeks ago.
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