| James V. Infantino | |
| Office1: | Montreal City Councillor for Marie-Clarac |
| Term Start1: | 2005 |
| Term End1: | 2009 |
| Predecessor1: | position eliminated |
| Successor1: | Clementina Teti-Tomassi |
| Office2: | Montreal City Councillor for Montréal-Nord (with Marcel Parent and Jean-Marc Gibeau) |
| Term Start2: | 2002 |
| Term End2: | 2005 |
| Predecessor2: | position created |
| Successor2: | position eliminated |
| Office3: | Montréal-Nord City Councillor, Division 8 |
| Term Start3: | 1998 |
| Term End3: | 2001 |
| Predecessor3: | created by redistribution[1] |
| Successor3: | position eliminated |
| Office4: | Montréal-Nord City Councillor, Division 9 |
| Term Start4: | 1998 |
| Term End4: | 2001 |
| Predecessor4: | Armand Nadeau |
| Successor4: | eliminated by redistribution[2] |
| Party: | Renouveau municipal (1994–2001) Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU), renamed as Union Montreal (UM) (2001–09) |
James V. Infantino is a retired politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montréal-Nord city council from 1994 to 2001 and a member of the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2009.
Infantino ran in the 1994 Montréal-Nord municipal election as a candidate of mayor Yves Ryan's Renouveau municipal and was elected without difficulty.[3] A vocal supporter of the mayor, he was re-elected in 1998.[4]
All of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal, including Montréal-Nord, were amalgamated into a single city on January 1, 2002. Infantino was narrowly elected to one of Montréal-Nord's three city council seats in the anticipatory 2001 Montreal municipal election as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU).[5] Tremblay won the mayoral election and his party won a majority of seats on council, and Infantino served as a supporter of Tremblay's administration. He was appointed to the Montreal Metropolitan Community in 2002,[6] and by virtue of holding his city council seat he automatically served on the newly created Montréal-Nord borough council.
In 2004, Infantino argued that amalgamation had benefited Montréal-Nord by ensuring that road repairs would be covered by the city's central budget.[7] The following year, he supported an extension of Quebec Autoroute 25 to Laval, which he said would improve pedestrian safety in his borough.[8]
Infantino was re-elected in the 2005 municipal election, in which MICU won a second consecutive majority. He supported a controversial proposal to rename Montreal's Park Avenue after former Quebec premier Robert Bourassa in 2006; on the night of the vote, he was quoted as saying, "I think it's a one-for-one change. Park Ave. was great. Robert Bourassa was great."[9]
He did not seek re-election in 2009.[10]