“I am running for the environment, the vulnerable citizens, and a strong community,” Sauvé-Frankel said last week. “We need vibrant and multi-generation communities to ensure the future of our city.”

A resident of Loyola district for 13 years, Sauvé-Frankel has won two elections as a EMSB commissioner since 2003. She has been active in the community as a volunteer, most notably with the NDG Minor Baseball organization, and has worked on election campaigns in NDG at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

Retiring City Councillor Warren Allmand has endorsed Sauvé-Frankel’s candidacy.

“I see Ginette as a community-oriented person who will serve as an excellent progressive representative of the citizens of Loyola District at City Hall. She is a tenacious campaigner and a hard worker, and I am wholeheartedly supporting her to be our next councillor.”

NDG Baseball has also endorsed her candidacy: “She is a proactive and straightforward individual who is dedicated to making our community a better place for all”, said NDG Baseball VP James Rankine.

Sauvé-Frankel is a graphic designer and marketing consultant by profession, and has an MBA degree from Concordia University. She also comes from a prominent family. Her father, Paul Sauvé, was a member of Maurice Duplessis's Union National government and served as Premier of Quebec in 1959. Her grandfather, Arthur Sauvé, was Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly (1916-1929) and Postmaster General in the Bennett government in Ottawa from1930 to1935.