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The 2021 Boucherville municipal election was an election that was held on the 7th of November 2021 to elect Boucherville's mayor and eight councillors as part of the 2021 Quebec municipal elections. All candidates were acclaimed since nobody else signed up past the deadline., a first in the last 15 years.

Jean Martel and his party's eight candidates were acclaimed in early October of 2021.

The election results will be made available on the website of Québec's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and on the Élections Québec website.

Citizen participation and services to the population
- Keep the Committee for Citizen Participation (Meetings with city councillors to suggest policy).

- Keep the Mayor's Breakfast (Monthly breakfast event to meet the Mayor and Councillors), the Mayor's Newsletter and the Town Hall's Info Capsule.

- Keep recording Town Hall sessions on TV Rive-Sud.

- Make a new website to help constituents better.

- Create a system to award citizens who participate in the functioning of the city.

- Stay in the Mayors for Peace program. (Association of anti-war mayors who want to stop the production of atomic weapons)

- Keep the Elected for a Day program with schools in Boucherville.

Environment and ecological transition
- Get a 45% carbon footprint reduction and be 100% carbon-neutral by 2050.

- Stay in the Partners for Climate Protection Program.

- Stay in the World Convention of Mayors for the Climate and Energy.

- Gradually ban single-use plastics.

- Make the number of recyclable objects higher at the Boucherville Ecocentre and at special recycling bins around the city.

- Make natural spaces and parks 20% larger.

- Continuing collaboration with partners for the acquisition of green spaces.

- Keep the Green Fund (20% of budget surplus goes to acquiring green spaces.

- Keep the One Birth, One Tree program.

- Plant trees around the city faster.

- Replace ash trees by new trees faster.

- Encourage the reduction of trash.

- Put in place a program to encourage the reduction of mass-water use.

- Renovate and clean the banks of all rivers that flow through Boucherville.

Transportation
- Continue collaboration with the RTL and MTQ to create measures to reduce traffic during the renovations of the Lafontaine Bridge/Tunnel.

- Create more direct bus circuits to get to Montréal faster.

- Support the creation of more ferries to Montréal.

- Support the purchase of hybrid or totally electric cars.

- Install more electric charging stations across the city.

- Continue abiding to the Réseau de Vélo Métropolitain to finance more multi-use roads over the river and Highway 20.

- Make a new bike route between Boulevard Montarville, Fort St-Louis and Marie-Victorin.

Urbanism
- Slow down the rate of urban development to respect the environment and quality of life.

- Build new parks in Districts 3, 4, 5 and 8.

- Finish building the new snow depot to facilitate snow removal.

- Keep the measures of noise reduction near highways and boulevards.

- Support the initiative to add more police in Boucherville.

- Keep supporting the coast guard.

- Keep the campaign to encourage drivers to slow down while driving.

- Keep working with everyone concerned to move the railway that passes through Old Boucherville.

- Rebuild the intersection between Highway 20 and Boulevard de Montarville to make it safer.

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