Kelly had pushed through the project, but Legendre complained that residents were not consulted and that the stadium would cause traffic and noise problems for the area.
He was more successful in his campaign to fund a new community centre - the St Laurent Complex - and to have the St Laurent branch of the Ottawa Public Library be relocated to become part of the new community centre.
He was again challenged by Kelly, and also by the unsuccessful provincial NDP candidate Joan Gullen and local activist Julie Taub.
However after the election controversy developed as Legendre was not given a position on the Police Services Board.
[1] He was also an opponent to the city's cancelled north-south O-Train light-rail line expansion which would have been completed in 2009.