Newspaper reports indicate that council declined to hold a by-election, even though almost twenty months remained in Gordon's two-year term.
[6] Lamoureux brought forward what he described as a "severe attrition policy" in 1982, cutting 19 jobs to save $500,000 at city hall.
One of the bureaucrats to lose his job was city engineer Peter Wong, who later challenged Lamoureux for the mayoral position.
Wong argued that it was inconsistent for Lamoureux to target the city's high unemployment rate while simultaneously cutting municipal jobs.
[8] He criticized the federal government's cuts to unemployment insurance in 1989, arguing that it would devastate Sudbury's economy.
[9] Lamoureux campaigned for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1993 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party, and finished third against Liberal incumbent Diane Marleau.