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City land grab in Pointe-aux-Trembles a ‘scam,’ grandson says
The city of Montreal has perpetrated a “monumental scam” to grab plots of land belonging to several individuals in a vacant field in Pointe-aux-Trembles that happens to sit next to the future REM de l’Est, says the grandson of one of them.
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“In my personal opinion, it’s a scam,” said Bruno Martel, whose grandmother, Françoise Allard, died at the age of 90 in January 2020 before seeing a cent from the city for her two plots of land that it had initially tried to get her to hand over for free.
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As many celebrated Mother’s Day Sunday, protesters in several cities across Canada, including Montreal, rallied to draw attention to the precarious situation of migrants living without permanent residency status in Canada.
“This is a very sad day for a lot of women who have been left behind by the Canadian government, which has decided not to include undocumented people in the government’s regularization program”, said Eloy Rivas, a spokesperson for Solidarity Across Borders, which organized Montreal’s event.
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