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Protest against Quebec Bill 31, banning lease transfers, happening in Montreal on Saturday

by Lorraine Carpenter

Join tenants’ rights advocates in a demonstration “against Bill 31, against abusive rent hikes, against renovictions, for lease transfers, for rent control, for the right to housing.”

On Saturday, Sept. 16, Montreal will be the site of a major protest against Bill 31, a law tabled by the CAQ that would put an end to lease transfers in Quebec.

The demonstration, organized by the Coalition of Housing Committees and Tenants Associations of Quebec (RCLALQ) begins at Préfontaine metro station (Moreau and Hochelaga) at 1 p.m.

“In the midst of the housing crisis, in the face of increasing renovictions and other fraudulent tactics to put tenants on the street, stripping tenants of the right to surrender their lease — it’s not happening!

“(With Bill 31), the government is giving landlords a nice gift that will fuel abusive rent increases. We ask the minister to step back from banning lease transfers and instead address the real problems tenants face by introducing rent control and ending renovictions.”

Protest against Quebec Bill 31, banning lease transfers, happening in Montreal on Saturday

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by Lorraine Carpenter

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Lorraine Carpenter was born in Montreal and studied communications and journalism at Concordia. She co-founded Cult MTL in 2012 following 12 years at the now-defunct Montreal alt weekly the Mirror, where she worked in editorial as copy editor and music editor. She’s dedicated to supporting the cultural scene in Montreal.