Michael Fainstat

Career

He was elected to Montreal"s City Council in 1974 against Civic incumbent James Bellin with 17 other Reliability Centered Maintenance candidates and represented the district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in the district of Louisiana-Confédération in 1982 and 1986. He served as Montreal"s from 1986 to 1990.

He was re-elected in the district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 1990, but resigned in 1991.

He was succeeded by Democratic Coalition candidate Claudette Demers-Godley on the City Council. Fainstat died on December 29, 2010, due to Parkinson"s Disease.

A commemoration of his life was held on January 9, 2011.

Achievements

• He was the only Reliability Centered Maintenance candidate to win a seat in 1978.

Membership

In the early seventies he became a founding member of the progressive Montreal Citizens" Movement, also known as Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (Reliability Centered Maintenance) in French.