“The homelessness also deserves to have its top Gun,” says Valérie Plante

On the sidelines of the announcement of new funding for community organizations in homelessness, Valérie Plante implored François Legault to appoint a minister responsible for roaming.

As the ministerial reshuffle approaches, I invite Prime Minister François Legault to take a strong gesturesaid the mayor of Montreal. I invite him to appoint a roaming minister.

Roaming too, she deserves to have her top gun.

She considered that launching this call at the dawn of a ministerial reshuffle was the ideal moment, while the government is to decide its new priorities.

The mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, publicly supported Valérie Plante’s proposal in the minutes that followed her speech. The ministerial reshuffle must demonstrate the real desire to act of the government on this crisis and its serious consequenceshe wrote, speaking on the Bluesky social network.

The mayor of Montreal assured that this request was not a disavowal towards Lionel Carmant, the current minister responsible for social services, which she described asally. But it must be admitted that you have to go further when it comes to roamingshe said. According to her, the mandate of the Ministry of Health and Social Services is too wide.

Lionel Carmant’s press officer said by email that his team had no comments to issue on the proposal, inviting Radio-Canada to contact the Prime Minister’s office.

The Prime Minister will make his ads in time and place concerning the next reshufflesaid François Legault’s spokesman Ewan Sauves. What I can tell you today is that Lionel Carmant, since 2018, has been working closely with cities, municipalities and organizations to strengthen services and help people in the field.

The mayor described the current situation as humanitarian crisisindicating that the community environment was out of breath.

$ 22.5 million for the community

Valérie Plante gathered many members of community organizations on Tuesday morning and journalists to announce a new funding of $ 22.5 million over three years to support organizations in front line roaming.

From this amount, $ 21.3 million will be paid to community organizations for projects that should promote inclusion, cohabitation, awareness and dualization and $ 500,000 will be given to the movement to end the roaming in Montreal and the aid network for single and itinerant people in Montreal.

The last $ 700,000 will be intended for shuttles which transport users from one service to another, normally when a center is full and a person must be transported to another refuge.

The mayor also said that these shuttles were used to welcome some people for last night when the centers were overflowing.

The mayor has cited a recommendation of the report on the roaming of the Montreal Public Consultation Office (OCPM), published in July, which advocates a greater financial predictability for community organizations by granting them in particular a multi -year financinglike the one announced on Tuesday.