More on Chinatown sprucing-up

It’s a truly slow news week, so everyone is covering the idea of sprucing up Chinatown: video from CityNews, optimism from Global and a slightly more subdued report from CTV.

The Gazette considers Chinatown’s future with a particularly idiotic quote from Claude Pinard, councillor for St‑Jacques and executive committee chair: “If we cannot bring back Chinatown, how can we make sure Montreal shines internationally?”

That the city must shine internationally is taken for granted (it’s a Coderre‑era notion), but that this depends on Chinatown is simply odd. I suppose its proximity to Old Montreal, as one of the city’s top attractions, is the main reason for this concern.