Vittorio Capparelli is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1986 to 1998 and was a member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) from 1994 to 1996. Early life and career Capparelli was born in Italy and moved to Canada in 1967. He was initially a lathe operator and later became the administrator of Patronat INCA, a group providing services for Quebec workers of Italian origin. City councillor Montreal Citizens' Movement Capparelli first ran for city council in 1982 municipal election as a candidate of the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and finished second to Civic Party incumbent George Savoidakis in the Jean-Talon ward. He ran a second time in 1986 and defeated Civic Party incumbent Marc Beaudoin in the Gabriel-Sagard ward. The MCM won a landslide victory in this election under mayoral candidate Jean Doré, and Capparelli served as a backbench supporter of Doré's administration for the next four years. He was re-elected in the 1990 election in the redistributed ward of François-Perrault over fellow incumbent Frank Venneri, a former MCM member who had joined the opposition Municipal Party. Capparelli became increasingly critical of Doré's administration in the early 1990s. In November 1991, he was the only MCM councillor to support an opposition initiative that would have diverted money from paving de la Commune Street in Old Montreal to improving the state of the city's playgrounds. He also voiced objections about the MCM's 1991 budget, and he openly criticized his party in the media several times in early 1992. Other MCM councillors were also critical of the party's direction in the same period. Capparelli re-confirmed his support for the MCM in September 1992 after Doré promised to address the concerns of party dissidents. The internal divisions continued, however, and in 1993 Capparelli voted against an MCM initiative for Montreal to lease space in the World Trade Center, charging that the decision was made in an undemocratic fashion. He ultimately resigned from the MCM on December 20, 1993, describing the Doré administration as "incompetent" and dominated by an "omnipresent" executive committee. He also complained that party discipline rules prevented councillors from voting their conscience. Vision Montreal Capparelli was briefly a member of Claude Beauchamp's Action Montreal party from March to April 1994. This party was not formally recognized, and Capparelli technically remained an independent councillor. Beauchamp dissolved Action Montreal in