Allison Hanes: Conducting Montreal's "ecological transition"

It has only been a few weeks since Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante shook up the city executive committee and created a brand new post.
Laurence Lavigne Lalonde, a councillor from the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, was put in charge of “ecological transition and resilience.” It’s a somewhat vague job description and a title heavy with the latest environmental jargon. But what might, in the past, have been called sustainable development, is now freighted with the gra