FLARE WAS THERE By Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins ...just in time for Montreal's ninth annual Daffodil Ball. Exclusivity reigned at the sold-out affair, with 650 of Montreal's most coutured at the historic Windsor Station. With the chic and cash-flow quotients off the charts, the many Order-of-this and recipient-of-that honoured guests shelled out $10,000-$50,000 for a table of 10. The glam former firsts Brian and Mila Mulroney and fellow politicos Jean Charest, Quebec's Liberal leader, and Lucien Bouchard, former premier of Quebec, mingled while others swirled around the dance floor under 60,000 sparkling lights and took in the perfume of 55,000 daffodils, which were jetted in from Scotland and inspired by the Kent, U.K. gardens of aristocrat Vita Sackville-West. Frivolity was not spent in vain, as $1,5 mil (net!) was raised for the Canadian Cancer Society.  Daffodil Ball producer Alison Silcoff  Daffodil: Former Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard, with wife Audrey Best  Daffodil: Former prime minister Brian Mulroney, with wife Mila Mulroney  Daffodil: Designer Hilary Radley, with husband film-maker Jean De Brabant  Daffodil: Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO of Québecor Media Inc., with television producer Julie Snyder |
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