MONTREAL– More than a loads area teams rejected to abandon a neighborhood centre in Montreal’s Ahuntsic area Friday regardless of an expulsion order, stating they do not have anywhere else to go.
Rémy Robitaille, supervisor of Solidarit é Ahuntsic, which stands for the 13 teams in the structure, claims the companies offer essential solutions for immigrants, evacuees and senior citizens, along with food financial institution solutions and French language courses for novices– an overall of 25,000 individuals yearly.
Centre de solutions scolaire de Montr éal, which has the structure, claims it has actually rented out the room to teams that offer the area today requires the areas to offer French language direction for novices.
It additionally implicates Solidarit é Ahuntsic of rejecting to authorize a lease because 2018.
Robitaille claims the institution solution centre increased the regular monthly lease for the entire structure from regarding $8,000 to $24,000– a rise the teams have actually rejected to pay, stating they will just leave if compelled to by the courts.
Ahuntsic-Cartierville district Mayor Émilie Thuillier is asking the Quebec federal government to enable the companies to remain in location till they can relocate right into a brand-new area centre that will certainly be constructed close by in the coming years, and to provide the institution solution centre extra moneying so it can rent out room in other places for its French courses.
She includes that individuals are presently able to obtain French language direction in the structure which its state of disrepair implies there will certainly be a three-to four-year wait on those courses if the institution solution centre does take control of.
This record by The Canadian Press was very first releasedDec 28, 2024.
Joe Bongiorno, The Canadian Press
