{"id":63879,"date":"2021-10-08T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=63879"},"modified":"2021-10-08T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:57:23","slug":"mrc-pontiacs-longest-serving-mayor-gets-another-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mrc-pontiacs-longest-serving-mayor-gets-another-term\/","title":{"rendered":"MRC Pontiac\u2019s longest-serving mayor gets another term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chichester\u2019s Donald Gagnon is the longest-serving mayor in MRC Pontiac, having spent more than 25 years leading the council of the small community in the north west of the region. Gagnon, along with the rest of his council, was elected by acclamation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels good, and it\u2019s nice to see that I have the support of the people,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now, I [have] 26 years and if I finish this term it will be 30.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the priority for this year, like always, would be to keep taxes low and the municipality\u2019s roads in good shape. He also pointed to the village\u2019s waterfront rehabilitation which he said was a project he wanted to see completed this term.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63879-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Clip-Donald-Gagnon-waterfront.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Clip-Donald-Gagnon-waterfront.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Clip-Donald-Gagnon-waterfront.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>At the regional level, Gagnon said that he would like to see some of the MRC\u2019s forestry projects come to fruition in order to bring jobs and people back to the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJobs, that\u2019s what we need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Gagnon is available below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chichester\u2019s Donald Gagnon is the longest-serving mayor in MRC Pontiac, having spent more than 25 years leading the council of the small community in the north west of the region. Gagnon, along with the rest of his council, was elected by acclamation. \u201cIt feels good, and it\u2019s nice to see that I have the support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":63881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[9903,1219,1548,4225],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=63879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}