{"id":9022,"date":"2011-01-07T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:48:03","slug":"city-hall-veteran-michael-fainstat-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/07\/city-hall-veteran-michael-fainstat-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall veteran Michael Fainstat passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/actualites\/regional\/montreal\/201101\/03\/01-4356878-michael-fainstat-un-grand-montrealais-seteint.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/images\/bizphotos\/569x379\/201101\/03\/227291-michael-fainstat-nouveau-maire-montreal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Michael Fainstat and Mayor Jean Dor\u00e9 upon the RCM&#8217;s victory in 1986 <\/em><em>(photo links to La Press obituary).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The passing of 2010 also saw the passing of a great Montrealer. Michael Fainstat, a former Montreal city councillor and chair of the Executive Committee, passed away on December 29th as a result of complications from Parkinsons. First elected as an NDG city councillor in 1974 as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montreal_Citizens%27_Movement\">RCM&#8217;s<\/a> breakthrough year, he would go on to become a fixture of city politics. He was the only RCM candidate to be reelected in 1978 and for the next four years he led what is widely considered an exemplary one-man opposition to the Drapeau regime. When the RCM finally won the 1986 elections with Jean Dor\u00e9, Fainstat was appointed chair of the Executive Committee making him Dor\u00e9&#8217;s right-hand man. He stepped down from Council and active political life in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>When Fainstat was first elected to City Council, it was a very different institution, serving as a hand-picked group of Drapeau supporters that rubber stamped his plans with little debate. The arrival of the RCM on Council, the first real opposition, meant that Drapeau&#8217;s projects will be finally scrutinised and criticised, a task in which Fainstat played a key role. He is most remembered for his commitment to bringing democratic reforms to City Council, such as the creation of a question period for the general public. Later, when his was in power, he lead the push to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/Michael+Fainstat+standard+city+councillors\/4067666\/story.html\">c<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/Michael+Fainstat+standard+city+councillors\/4067666\/story.html\">reate a Code of ethics <\/a>for city councillors, a reform that would later fall by the wayside during following administrations. While there is still much work to be done improving local democracy, Fainstat&#8217;s contributions were an important step in the progressive democratisation of City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Fainstat and Mayor Jean Dor\u00e9 upon the RCM&#8217;s victory in 1986 (photo links to La Press obituary). The passing of 2010 also saw the passing of a great Montrealer. Michael Fainstat, a former Montreal city councillor and chair of the Executive Committee, passed away on December 29th as a result of complications from Parkinsons.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/07\/city-hall-veteran-michael-fainstat-passes-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;City Hall veteran Michael Fainstat passes away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7831,7836,7837,7839,7840,102],"tags":[8,73,14,5930,346,4629,64,21,139,28],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-headlines","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","category-spacing","tag-city-hall","tag-headlines-a-la-une","tag-historical","tag-jean-dore","tag-mayor","tag-michael-fainstat","tag-ndg","tag-people","tag-politics-la-politique","tag-spacing-montreal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City Hall veteran Michael Fainstat passes away - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/07\/city-hall-veteran-michael-fainstat-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Hall veteran Michael Fainstat passes away - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Fainstat and Mayor Jean Dor\u00e9 upon the RCM&#8217;s victory in 1986 (photo links to La Press obituary). 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