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Members of Projet Montréal adopted new party platform priorities, including a new métro line linking Montreal North and downtown, at a pre-election convention over the weekend.

“With our program, more families will stay in Montreal or will move here, our commercial arteries will be stronger and our transportation network will be more efficient, as much for public transit users as for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians,” party leader Valérie Plante said.

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The party is the official opposition on Montreal city council.

Plante was elected leader of Projet Montréal by its members last fall. She is also its mayoral candidate in the Montreal municipal election this November. So far, she’s the only declared candidate running against Mayor Denis Coderre.

The program priorities adopted by party delegates, who met at the Université du Québec à Montréal on Saturday and Sunday, include reducing municipal bureaucracy for small businesses and helping Montrealers travel around the island more easily by proposing to build the new métro line.