MONTREAL - Montreal residents demonstrated Saturday against the expansion of a synagogue in their borough.
Protesters interviewed by a local television station said they fear it will increase traffic in their neighbourhood.
The dozen protesters also reproached the city for giving the congregation preferential treatment by okaying the $400,000 project.
One member of the Hasidic Jewish community told local media that he survived a German concentration camp and he would survive this.
The synagogue has been in the neighbourhood for 60 years and belongs to the Gate David congregation .
The borough mayor said Saturday that the congregation took the appropriate steps for work to be approved.
The Plateau-Mont-Royal borough where the synagogue is located has a large population of Hassidic Jews.
The residents of the borough could sign a register to force a referendum on the issue.
