Incumbent Snowdon City Councillor, Marvin Rotrand, wants to ban smoking in Cote-des-Neighes Notre-Dame-de-Grace public parks.
It appears he isn't the only one to think so, Rotrand said he will table a petition with close to 1,500 signatures that support the ban at Monday's City Council meeting.
"The petitioners are clear that they want action both on tobacco and cannabis," it said in an email release from Rotrand's office.
"Some 10,000 persons die each year in Quebec from smoking related diseases. The cost to the health system and losses to the economy exceed $4 billion a year."
Currently the borough allows people to smoke as long as they are nine-metres away from a playground.
"Everywhere else in North America, we’re seeing this movement for smoke-free parks growing," Rotrand told CTV Montreal. "People respect the law. There’s no difficulty in enforcing it."
Meanwhile, borough mayor, Sue Montgomery, opposes the idea.
"I'm not going to marginalize [smokers] further and drive them inside their homes, which our own health department says is worse," she said.
Montgomery suggested that Rotrand take his cause up with Ottawa.
Rotrand's response, "I’m so disappointed by her effort to divert this movement in to trying to lobby the federal government to ban tobacco."
He added, "That is such a long-term project, to get her off the hook from doing anything."
With files from CTV Montreal.