Alan DeSousa, Mayor of Saint-Laurent, Appointed Chair of the Green Municipal Fund Council
| Saint-Laurent, May 5, 2022 – Alan DeSousa, Mayor of Saint-Laurent, has been appointed Council Chair of the Green Municipal Fund (GMF) of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and will serve in this capacity until March 31, 2024. This $1.65-billion fund financed by the federal government supports municipalities of all sizes throughout Canada in carrying out their sustainable development projects. |
| Quote“It is a great honour for me to chair the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund Council. I am proud and pleased to be able to share my many years of experience and expertise in sustainable development and municipal leadership with other communities in the country. Under my leadership, Saint-Laurent has become a sustainable municipal territory recognized for being innovative and at the forefront of the green transition. I would like to help spread these same values across Canada because the climate emergency can’t wait any longer!”
Alan DeSousa, Mayor of Saint-Laurent “We are delighted that Mayor DeSousa has agreed to chair the Green Municipal Fund Council. In this key role, Alan DeSousa will help Canadian municipalities of all sizes move towards carbon neutrality, so that their actions drive transformational change in the areas of energy, affordable housing, transportation, water, land use planning and waste.” Joanne Vanderheyden, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Details Alan DeSousa succeeds Ben Henderson, who has served as GMF Council Chair since 2015. Since its creation 20 years ago, the GMF has invested in 1738 projects, contributed toward avoiding 2.75-million metric tons of CO2 and helped create 12,908 person-years of employment. Mr. DeSousa has served on the GMF Council as a municipal elected official since June 2018, where he was the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Audit Committee. In 2014, he received the FCM Green Champion Award and the Canada Green Building Council Government Leadership Award in the public sector. He brings more than 30 years of public administration experience and activism for sustainable development and environmental preservation to the role of Council Chairman. He has a thorough understanding of municipal government decision-making. Mr. DeSousa is serving his sixth term as Mayor of Saint-Laurent and has been a member of Ville de Montréal’s Executive Committee for over 11 years. He also sat on the Council of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) from 2002 to 2017 and was a member of its Executive Committee for eight years. Mayor DeSousa has contributed to Montréal’s sustainable development and environmental policies, moving them from the planning stages to implementation. Through his commitment and determination, Saint-Laurent became the first municipal entity in Québec with a population of over 100,000 to complete the final phase of the FCM’s Partners for Climate Protection program in 2019. The Saint-Laurent Biodiversity Corridor has received two national awards since 2020 from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. As for the Bibliothèque du Boisé, this library in Saint-Laurent received the 2017 Green Building Award from RAIC and the Canada Green Building Council. Chairing the GMF Council contributes toward reinforcing the borough’s commitment to environmental protection. This appointment notably echoes the 2021-2030 Climate Emergency Plan adopted by Saint-Laurent last fall to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, both those of Saint-Laurent’s Administration and those of its residents, institutions, businesses and industrial firms. Saint-Laurent already has a long history of successful collaboration with the GMF. For instance, it obtained financing from the Fund for the Éco-campus Hubert-Reeves project at Technoparc Montréal, for the Complexe sportif and for the Bibliothèque du Boisé. এসএস/সিএ
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