Notre-Dame St. encampment won’t be taken down Thursday

A homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street East in Montreal. (Source: Noovo Info)

Quebec’s Transportation Ministry (MTQ) will not be dismantling the homeless encampment along Notre-Dame Street in Montreal’s east end on Thursday, Noovo Info has confirmed.

The Clinique juridique itinérante (CJI) obtained another injunction on June 30 preventing the MTQ and the City of Montreal from evicting those camping there until at least July 10.

The MTQ told Noovo Info that no dismantling has been planned for that date.

The CJI initially filed an emergency motion to prevent the planned dismantling of the camp on June 10.

During the legal proceedings, lawyers argued that an eviction would cause those living there serious harm and shouldn’t be done when shelters are overflowing.

Lawyers for the City of Montreal and the MTQ, on the other hand, said there are safety issues associated with the camp, like the building of permanent structures, an increase in the number of tents and frequent interventions by police and the fire brigade.

They said they did not want to ban encampments in the city, but only to move the tents to targeted areas.

With files from Noovo Info