An Ambitious Program for the Benefit of LaSalle Residents !
Though ambitious, these commitments are rooted in experience and past achievements. Team members intend to do everything possible to ensure sound and effective management of the borough and seize every development opportunity to respond to the concerns and expectations of citizens.
2025-2029 program
Blessed with remarkable natural heritage and cultural diversity, where families from recent and older waves of immigration live side by side, LaSalle is a community whose residents are proud. Offering citizens an exceptional quality of life is a priority: numerous parks, green spaces, and places for sharing and discovery bring them joy on a daily basis.
The ecological transition is at the heart of each of our priorities, as it is essential to preserving our quality of life and the sustainability of our territory.
Équipe LaSalle is fully committed to providing accessible, high-quality local services, as well as diverse facilities and infrastructure. We want LaSalle to continue shining, so that everyone can find what they need here, easily and naturally, and proudly choose to call this place home.
Équipe LaSalle Team commits to:
- Maintain and improve the quality of local services offered to citizens
- Strengthen neighborhood life to make them vibrant and distinctive living environments
- Implement the ecological transition action plan
- Continue greening public and private spaces
- Promote optimal management of residual materials
- Continue the fight against heat islands
- Provide a safe, clean, and well-maintained living environment
- Act to support and prevent initiatives targeting people at risk of homelessness
- Continue investments in parks and community facilities
- Provide ongoing support to community organizations
- Maintain and promote cultural offerings
- Showcase and preserve built heritage
Concrete actions:
- Adopt a local universal accessibility action plan
- Adopt a local recreation policy
- Maintain support for citizens’ committees that bring neighborhoods to life
- Develop an action plan to prevent homelessness and support homeless individuals
- Provide increased financial support to resources preventing and combating homelessness
- Accelerate tree-pruning cycles
- Implement incentives to encourage greening of large private parking lots
- Revise regulations to support ecological initiatives
- Implement the ecological transition action plan
- Develop an urban forestry plan
- Adopt an urban agriculture policy
- Extend the Grand Sud-Ouest ecological corridor
- Build a roof over the Terrasse Serre dance floor
Équipe LaSalle places the involvement of all citizens—youth, seniors, people from diverse cultural communities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and many others—at the heart of its priorities. Convinced that their participation is essential to collective progress and well-being, the team is committed to encouraging, supporting, and fully accompanying them.
Driven by values of solidarity, listening, and openness, Équipe LaSalle works to create environments conducive to a dynamic and inclusive community life, where all voices are heard, respected, and considered. To strengthen this valuable bond, Équipe LaSalle will multiply opportunities for exchange, valuing citizen experience and expertise while implementing innovative solutions to facilitate dialogue and information sharing.
Équipe LaSalle Team commits to:
- Increase the sense of belonging to the borough and pride among LaSalle residents
- Encourage citizen participation in community outreach
- Maintain close communication with the population on issues and projects
- Support and accompany community organizations as well as social and economic partners
- Promote and support volunteer associations and recognize their contribution to the community
- Acknowledge the contribution of LaSalle artists to the community’s well-being
- Highlight the richness of LaSalle’s diversity
Concrete actions:
- Update the Diversity and Inclusion Plan
- Implement a program to recognize LaSalle ambassadors in various fields
- Create a collective studio available to local artists
- Establish a fund to highlight LaSalle’s diversity
- Complete the renovation of the former City Hall (Espace Treize) on Strathyre Street and support its cultural mission
- Support initiatives to encourage youth civic engagement
Strong commercial sectors contribute to LaSalle’s vitality, foster citizen engagement, and help create a healthy and attractive living environment. Équipe LaSalle is committed to facilitating the growth and visibility of businesses, industries, and institutions, while promoting job creation in the borough.
Équipe LaSalle Team commits to:
- Strengthen commercial arteries and stimulate the local economy
- Maintain support for local industries and businesses
- Attract new businesses and foster job creation
- Support the redevelopment of the Seagram sector
- Redevelop the LaS-O and Newman sectors harmoniously
- Ensure housing diversity across the territory
- Support the deployment of Canal Lachine 4.0 led by PME MTL
- Provide efficient services for permit applicants and issuance
Concrete actions:
- Adopt a local economic development action plan
- Maintain the commercial vitality fund
- Continue implementing the program to highlight the distinctiveness of commercial arteries
- Conduct an economic positioning study for Dollard Avenue
- Adopt regulations governing accessory and multigenerational housing
- Support local organizations in developing social and affordable housing supply
- Monitor land suitable for social housing development
- Implement the LaS-O and Newman planning projects
- Develop a pilot project for pop-up shops
- Support efforts to preserve the village core in the Village des Rapides/Le Bronx
- Collaborate on the establishment of a shelter for women victims of violence
Safety, at the heart of all our actions, guides our efforts in every aspect of daily life. Équipe LaSalle continues to work tirelessly to ensure a safe and accessible environment for all residents.
Équipe LaSalle Team commits to:
- Diversify transport options within LaSalle
- Continue developing structuring public transit, including the métro extension
- Provide safe and accessible circulation for pedestrians
- Ensure road and cycling infrastructure safety
- Promote connectivity of cycling routes across the borough
- Advocate for improved commuter train service frequency
Concrete actions:
- Establish a Mobility Advisory Committee
- Reduce speed limits in residential neighborhoods with a set of measures, including 30 km/h zones in compliance with standards
- Build green islands and curb extensions to secure strategic intersections
- Revise the local mobility plan
- Continue the Lien Vert project: active transport on the former railway corridor
- Collaborate to expand Bixi and Communauto services
- Expand the charging station network
- Complete the final phase of refurbishment of the Aqueduct Canal bike path
- Consolidate the adapted bicycle loan project
- Expand snow removal support for people with disabilities
- Ensure effective and safe snow removal
- Continue the process of developing an indoor sports complex
- Strengthen graffiti removal efforts
- Develop a project to showcase buildings that reflect local history
It prioritizes responsible management of public finances without compromising service quality. At City Council, Équipe LaSalle defends local priorities in collaboration with central services, always in the interest of LaSalle residents.
Équipe LaSalle Team commits to:
- Maintain efficient and optimal management of public finances
- Take advantage of all opportunities for central investments in the borough
- Defend residents’ interests in terms of sound governance and municipal taxation before the central city and higher levels of government
- Ensure sound, effective, and locally respectful municipal management
Concrete actions:
- Maintain the lowest possible local tax rate
- Review borough practices to maximize every investment
- Actively participate in the review of activities to ensure adequate borough funding