After proposing to reduce social aid to asylum seekers and give them bus tickets to other provinces, François Legault has backtracked on this plan.
But if you look up “Legault” currently on X, you also find stories about French classes being limited and Quebec blocking access to the federal dental care system for kids, seniors and the disabled, considering this to be meddling in its affairs. This is criticized in the Journal by Josée Legault on Wednesday.
The decline of French in Montreal is reversible, according to Louise Harel, who heads the city’s committee on the French language. She wants the city to put up a specific office to defend French and support more French‑language cultural offerings.
I don’t see how this will make things any different, but we seem to need these gestures, so let’s dedicate more public funds to a new office and give sinecures to a few more HEC graduates.
A shame no one has considered defending French by adequately funding classes so people can learn it.
But people shouldn’t need French classes. They should already know French. Not knowing French is a moral failing, it can’t be remedied with classes.
I remember this attitude in my high school French teachers. They felt we were flawed because we didn’t know French already.
Knowing French isn’t enough, You need to *be* French. Preferably French Canadian–not European ;P
I recently did some research on my family history and found that 2 of my distant grandmothers on my French Canadian side were actually English prisoners of war from raids on New England in the late 1600s who were integrated into New France (Ann Heard became Marie Anne Prévost and Mercy Smith became Marie Ursule). Pure-laine is a fantasy.
You’re practically a bloke, MarcG!
Fabre and D’Iberville stations reopened Wednesday morning, leaving only Saint‑Michel station closed for repairs.
Besides shots being fired, CBC finds that tenants in the same building as Old Montreal Airbnbs face bad living conditions and constantly rising rents.
In France, La Presse interviewed the husband of the deceased Léonor Geraudie and father of their daughter Vérane.
Investigators suspect extortion in the case of the fire last week. They may be right, but this theory makes Emile B*namor a victim, and he doesn’t strike me as suitable casting for a victim.
I’m going to put myself on repeat. We need a registry of apartments and buildings. A list of who owns what building, the individual apartments, and a copy of the lease, to see the usage. And the best way to do this is to change the city tax system to pre-supposed that a building is commercial unless a copy of registered leases are on file, to get the residential rate. You aren’t renting it out, but live there, a copy of your tax form (with amounts and SIN blacked out) to show you live there.
And then, from then on, the TAL can see the leases, the jumps in price, the changes. And the city gets to collect higher taxes if you aren’t renting residentially. (Since commercial rates are 5X residential rates). And the city can ask questions, like why is it not renting, who’s using it and why, from the landlord.
We still have far too much reverence for ownership of property for anything like that to be proposed.
Why are no politicians advocating a straight out ban of Airbnb in Montreal?
It seems like the problem isn’t with regulations but with communication and enforcement. For example, in Verdun, short-term rentals are only allowed if it’s your principal residence (e.g. you rent your place when you go on vacation). Does anyone know this? If you do run an Airbnb out of an apartment building that you own, are you penalized?
@Ephraim, I think the QC govt has access to all that info, but the city does not have the means to access that data in order to enforce regulations at the ground level. There’s still a disconnect between province and city that sketchy Airbnb proprietors are able to exploit. I believe the QC govt is reluctant to relinquish more power to the city, yet they’re too busy pushing divisive laws than really tackling this issue.
Who owns what property in Montreal is available online, but you can only search one at a time by address.
https://servicesenligne2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sel/evalweb/index
Meezly – They have a registry of who owns the buildings because that has to be registered. But they don’t have full information on who’s living in that apartment unless they file taxes. And neither does the city. So by changing the property tax to require registration of main domicile and secondary home, we could possibly increase city taxes. A fully occupied home should be residential. But if you are using it as pied-du-terre, should it be 100% residential? When you are taking the space of two families? And if you have no one living there, is it empty or is it being rented as AirBnB illegally and if it is, should you be paying commercial tax on it, rather than residential.
So if we TIE residential tax on 100% residential use, then landlords who decide to not registered their tenants and their leases can just pay commercial taxes. Hence, you have incentivized them to make the leases on the record by lowering their taxes 😀
Airbnb bans and tenant registries are good ideas, but they won’t do much if OC and gangs are willing to burn down residential buildings as part of their turf wars. The La Presse story about the Eclipse squad (read with a grain of salt) was eye-opening about how the gang scene is increasingly out of control, bound by no sense of a code, and driven by younger and younger people.
Defintiely read that with a grain of salt, it’s manufacturing consent for inflated police budgets.
The protection racket is nothing new, arson is nothing new, and it’s always been the smaller gangs made up of younger kids looking to establish themselves with the bigger outfits doing the dirty work.
Shots were fired Tuesday night against the building where landlord Emile B*namor has his office. Three young men were arrested in a vehicle nearby.
That they were charged with “bris de probation” tells me they aren’t just some angry citizens, and judging by the placement of the little bullet hole stickers not marksmen either.
A warning doesn’t require marksmanship, just visibility.
On radio news, it was emphasized that the van they were driving was rented. But the arrests were of people aged 17, 19 and 20. Do they often rent vans to guys that age?
In Quebec, you must be at least 18 to rent a car (the RoC is 21). Anyone under 25 has to pay an extra “Underage Fee”, which seems a lot like age discrimination, now that I say it.
bob 23:29 on 2024-10-09 Permalink
What else is new? He is a bigot who leads a party of bigots which is voted for by bigots.