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Montreal's interim mayor

Newly elected interim Mayor Laurent Blanchard enters the council chamber at City Hall Tuesday in Montreal. Blanchard was named to the job Tuesday, making him the scandal-soaked city’s third mayor in less than a year. He will hold the job for only a few months, until the November municipal election. The two-term city councillor was asked whether he feared that UPAC, Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, might also come knocking at his borough offices.
Laurent Blanchard
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Newly elected interim Mayor Laurent Blanchard enters the council chamber at City Hall Tuesday in Montreal. Blanchard was named to the job Tuesday, making him the scandal-soaked city’s third mayor in less than a year. He will hold the job for only a few months, until the November municipal election. The two-term city councillor was asked whether he feared that UPAC, Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, might also come knocking at his borough offices. “I don’t worry about that,” said Blanchard, a former community newspaper publisher. “Absolutely not!”