A bed for everyone
Nathalie Goulet, city councillor for Ahuntsic-Cartierville and the executive committee member responsible for homelessness, spoke with reporters in front of the encampment on Monday.
She emphasized that there is no lack of shelter beds available for people, and that everyone who will be removed from the camp will be offered a bed and access to services.
Nathalie Goulet, a city councillor for Ahuntsic-Cartierville, is the executive committee member responsible for homelessness.(Alex Leduc/CBC) We can assure you that every person here has a shelter bed for tonight, she said. Goulet added that there are double the amount of shelter spaces available compared to before the pandemic, including for women, young people and Indigenous people.