$600,000 for indigenous centre

Quebec is giving the Resilience Centre, beside Cabot Square, $600,000 to find a permanent address. La Presse adds that the city is prepared to add another $100,000 for temporary digs. The centre has 4 months to vacate the building that used to be a McDonald’s next to the square.

It’s good that government is looking into funding a space, although the amounts named are not close to the figure that would be necessary to buy a multipurpose building downtown. Why then do I find myself wondering what the developer of the old Children’s Hospital site has used for leverage on the province and the city to spur them to move the indigenous population out of the square?