The Montreal Ensemble Chef, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, took advantage of the unveiling of her team in the district of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (MHM) to announce its intention to restore the collection of household waste on a weekly base during the summer months in this district.
The whole Montreal Ensemble team met for the occasion on Thursday, in front of the Maisonneuve market. First to announce the candidacy of Chantal Gagnon to the arrondissement town hall, then of his team in MHM, and finally to detail the party’s promise.
“It is time to return to the essentials and to tackle major issues together: cleanliness, safety and fluidity. We must be pragmatic and stop dividing the population, ”said Mme Gagnon, who has been working in the community for several years.
Photo Denis Germain, Special collaboration, La Presse Archives
The Montreal Ensemble Chef, Soraya Martinez Ferrada
The town hall candidate referred to “the major irritant”, according to her, of a good part of the citizens: the collection of garbage in the two weeks. A measure implemented here in November 2024 following a pilot project introduced in 2022.
Never mind, even if some districts led by Together Montréal-such as Saint-Laurent-have adapted to the bihebdomedary collection, the party’s chef promised only once elected, the collection of weekly household waste would be restored in the entire arrondissement, from May to October.
The Montreal ensemble promise is notably based on the number of complaints and requests for illegal waste deposit in the public domain, which has increased by 40 %, according to the party. But also the popular discontent expressed since the implementation of the new measure.
Photo Sarah Mongeau-Birkett, the press archives
Last December, citizens of the district of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve manifested against the spacing of household waste collection.
Last December, citizens indeed claimed the resignation of the mayor Pierre Lessard-Blais due to the spacing of the collections.
They evoked the multiplication of wild deposits in the public trash cans of the arrondissement or the numerous garbage bags left in the street outside the collection beaches by families with low income from Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Read the article: “Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: the collection of spaced waste arouses discontent”
The objective of the bihebdomedary collection is however honorable: to reduce the quantity of waste transported to already full dumps. In particular thanks to the establishment of a collection of compostable organic waste. This reduction also leads to a reduction in the number of trucks on the roads, also welcome.
Doesn’t the Montreal overall headache are afraid of plumming the city’s environmental policy by opening the door to different arrangements for each district?
There are 19 arrondissements in Montreal, 19 districts, 19 different built frames, what we want in the end is to make sure that people manage their trash cans well, do more recycling and composting, but the reality from one arrondissement to another may be different. And we must respect this difference. It is a borough competence.
Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Montreal Ensemble Chef
On the question of roaming, well present in this arrondissement, the candidate for the town hall, Chantal Gagnon indicated that the camps would not be dismantled “as long as community organizations have no additional resources”.
“Demantle is not the solution,” added Mme Martinez Ferrada. No one wants to live in a tent. The case is in court, but before doing anything, you have to make sure you have a social and community net, a health net too. It is a complex file, but the city must make more and we will make proposals in this sense soon. »»
The Montreal overall candidates in the various districts are: Alba Zuniga Ramos (Louis-Riel) and Julien Hénault-Ratelle (Tétreaultville), who stand out in their districts, as well as Alexandre Devaux-Guizani (Maisonneuve-Longue-Pointe) and Alexandre Giasson (Hochelaga).
Carla Beauvais, project candidate Montreal in Ahuntsic-Cartierville
The entrepreneur and activist Carla Beauvais, who notably co-founded the Dynastie Foundation, will be the project of the Montreal project in the district of Sault-au-Récollet, in the district of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Anne-Marie Kabongo will present herself in the Bordeaux-Cartierville district of the same arrondissement. Other project candidates Montreal have also been announced by party leader Luc Rabouin. These are candidates of the district of Verdun-Île-des-Sœurs, starting with Céline-Audrey Beauregard, who will present themselves at the town hall. The adviser positions will be broken by Jean-Pierre Serra, Logan Littlefield and Véronique Tremblay (in the Champlain-Île-des-Sœurs district) and Stefana Lamasanu, Sterling Downey and Benoît Gratton (in the DESMARCHAIS-CRAWFORD DISTRICT).
