In the 2001 election, Chalifoux was defeated by former mayor Dr. Richard Plain, who favoured the same alignment as Ratchinsky and proposed a plebiscite on the subject.
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City Council approved Chalifoux's preferred alignment, by this time named Ray Gibbon Drive.
In 2001, Plain, newly retired from academia, announced his intention to challenge incumbent mayor Paul Chalifoux.
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