Montreal Chinatown merchants, residents launch anti-crime petition
Global News
Fresh questions have now arisen about the fate of tenants of a rooming on Clarke Street in Chinatown that people in the area call a drug den.
Fresh questions have now arisen about the fate of tenants of a rooming house on Clarke Street in Chinatown that people in the area call a drug den.
“The owner just passed away,” explained Bill Wong, director general of the Montreal Chinatown Development Council. “As far as I know there’ll be some changes there.”
Those changes have not been communicated publicly yet, but the building and issues around drug dealing and prostitution there and on Brady Lane behind it, that Global News has been reporting on in recent weeks, were just some of the concerns Chinatown residents and merchants had Wednesday morning.
“Criminal activities and chaos and disorder are still making everyday living conditions unsafe and unacceptable,” Bryant Chang, Chinese Association of Montreal vice-president told Global News.
It’s why they have now launched a petition to demand further steps from the City of Montreal to address the problems.
The petition calls for the city to “respect our fundamental constitutional and civil rights to peace, security, dignity and liberty as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter and Québec Charter, end and prevent all criminal activities by applying a zero tolerance approach to drug-related trafficking, prostitution, vandalism and acts of physical violence and increase police foot patrol and visibility in Chinatown.”
The city has increased psychosocial teams, met with residents and cracked down on some illegal activities over the summer. However, people in Chinatown claim that, so far, the city’s approach is woefully inadequate.
“We’ve been asking the city and the city has not shown much, shall we say willingness, to look at community-based solutions,” explained Fo Niemi, head of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), a civil rights organization that has been helping Chinatown residents.
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