| Hasmig Belleli | |
| Office1: | Montreal City Councillor for Ahuntsic |
| Term Start1: | 2008 |
| Term End1: | 2009 |
| Predecessor1: | Pierre Lapointe |
| Successor1: | Émilie Thuillier |
| Term Start2: | 1994 |
| Term End2: | 2001 |
| Predecessor2: | Alain André |
| Successor2: | Pierre Lapointe |
| Office3: | Montreal City Councillor for Acadie |
| Term Start3: | 2001 |
| Term End3: | 2005 |
| Predecessor3: | Noushig Eloyan |
| Successor3: | position eliminated |
| Party: | Vision Montréal |
Hasmig Belleli is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 1994 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2009 as a member of Vision Montreal.
Belleli was born Hasmig Vasilian in Lebanon, to a family of Armenian background. She moved to Canada with her husband in 1967. During her time on council, she fought for a memorial to the Armenian genocide to be constructed in Montreal.[1]
Belleli was re-elected in the 1998 municipal election, in which Vision Montreal won a second consecutive council majority. She continued serving as chair of the urban planning commission following the election.[3] In March 1999, her committee approved a controversial housing project in one of the city's largest remaining greenspaces, at the foot of Mount Royal.[4] The committee later approved initiatives to construct condominiums on the Redpath Refinery, transform the Rialto Theatre into a dance club, and launch a Loblaws store in Ahuntsic. (Belleli abstained from voting on the last two decisions and voted against the Loblaws plan when it came before council.)[5]
In 2001, Belleli's committee voted to support demolition of the dormant York Theatre in order to permit an expansion of Concordia University. She defended this decision against the complaints of heritage groups, saying, "It seems to me that in no case do these groups make a gesture (like) a financing campaign each year to collect money to buy these buildings and conserve them. It's easy to say conserve, conserve, conserve."[6]
Belleli supported Mayor Bourque's successful campaign to create a single municipal administration for the Island of Montreal.[7] She was elected to a third council term for the Acadie division in 2001, as Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) defeated Vision Montreal across the city. She served in opposition for the next four years and was defeated in her bid for re-election in 2005.
By virtue of holding her seat on city council, Belleli was also a member of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough council from 2001 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2009.
Belleli was nominated as the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate for Alfred-Pellan prior to the 2008 federal election.[8] She withdrew from the contest after being re-elected to city council.