April 1994 to support the Vision Montreal group that was then coalescing under Pierre Bourque's leadership. Capparelli joined Vision Montreal in September 1994 and was re-elected under its banner in the 1994 municipal election. Bourque defeated Doré in this election to become Montreal's mayor, and Vision Montreal won a significant majority on council; in November 1994, Bourque appointed Capparelli to the executive committee with responsibility for income security and social issues. Capparelli indicated his opposition to affirmative action programs in a media interview in February 1995. He clarified that he was not speaking on behalf of Bourque's administration. Bourque removed Capparelli from the executive committee on October 4, 1996, and reassigned him as assistant to committee chair Noushig Eloyan. Capparelli sought a court injunction to reverse his demotion, arguing that the mayor did not have the legal right to remove him from the executive. Nothing appears to have come from this. Capparelli ultimately broke with Bourque in January 1997, saying, "I no longer have confidence in the mayor. The problem is that Mr. Bourque wants to concentrate all the power at city hall in his own hand." Capparelli was expelled from the Vision Montreal caucus on February 11, 1997, and served for a time as an independent councillor. In early 1998, he joined an informal group of opposition councillors led by Sammy Forcillo. He later rejoined the Montreal Citizens' Movement and ran for the party in the 1998 election; he lost to Frank Venneri, who by this time had joined Vision Montreal. Subsequent elections Capparelli later rejoined Vision Montreal and ran for city council under its banner in the 2005 municipal election. He again lost to Venneri, who by this time had joined Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union. Capparelli ran for borough mayor of Saint-Leonard in 2009 and finished a distant second against Union Montreal incumbent Michel Bissonnet. Electoral record References Living people Canadian politicians of Italian descent Montreal city councillors Year of birth missing (living people)