As cold weather arrives, Quebec hands out eviction notices at Notre-Dame Street encampment
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As the temperature starts to drop, Quebec's Transport Ministry issued eviction notices to some of the dozens of people living in tents along Montreal's Notre-Dame Street East.
The people who received the notice on Friday have until Thursday to leave the strip of land near the St. Lawrence River in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough and find a new place to stay.
The provincially owned land has been the site of several homeless encampments since the COVID-19 pandemic. Transports Québec says it's concerned about possible fire hazards and unsanitary conditions.
A 40-year-old man who has been living at the encampment with about a dozen others since the spring says the government could fix the issue by building a "proper place" for all.
CBC News has agreed to withhold the person's name because of his concerns for safety and privacy.
"It is not a home. But it is painful to get kicked out of outside," he said. "Where do I have to go?"
The man says he's been kicked off the land several times.
"It's me they don't like. They don't like the one who actually gives tents to everyone, the one who gives sleeping bags and food and care and someone to listen at 3 a.m., for example, when no one is there," he said.
He has an idea of where where he'll go next, as he's far from the only one in this situation. There are encampments all over the city.
Independent city councillors Craig Sauvé and Serge Sasseville will present a motion this week to declare a state of emergency on homelessness. There's an ongoing debate over the issue at city hall.
The motion calls for using "all necessary resources to ensure all people experiencing homelessness can be housed" and requisitioning private accommodation spaces to shelter the unhoused before winter, as the city did during the pandemic.
It also calls for shelters to get more funding from the city, and requests additional funds from Quebec City and Ottawa.
Sauvé said the homelessness situation is becoming increasingly critical.
"We're seeing the tents pop up as well in all sorts of different neighbourhoods that we may not have seen people that are experiencing homelessness before," he told CBC Montreal's Daybreak host Sean Henry.
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