—Thought I’d pass this email along to anyone interested. A truly noble cause with only a toehold in Quebec due to our many layers of corrupt construction unions.—
Nouveau projet à St-Henri !
Chers bénévoles,
Habitat pour l’humanité Montréal lance une nouvelle saison de construction et cherche des bénévoles pour travailler au chantier et sur les divers comités qui préparent le travail de construction. Habitat construira deux maisons à St-Henri au cours des prochains mois pour deux familles à revenu modeste. La séance d’information s’adresse à ceux qui veulent participer en tant que bénévoles. On vous attend!
| Évènement: | séance d’information pour le projet Habitat pour l’humanité 2009 |
| Date: | samedi le 30 mai – 10 h |
| Endroit: | Hôtel Delta Centre-Ville, 777, rue Université, Montréal, QC H3C 3Z7 |
| (Métro Square-Victoria) | |
| Questions? : | construction@habitatmontreal. |
We’re building in St-Henri !
Dear Volunteers,
Habitat for Humanity Montréal is gearing up for another building season and is looking for volunteers to work on site and on the different committees that do the work leading up to a build. We will be building two more houses over the next few months in St-Henri for two well-deserving low-income families. We will be holding an information session for those interested in volunteering. Now is the time to get involved!
| Event: | Information Session for Habitat for Humanity 2009 Build |
| Date: | Saturday May 30th - 10:00 AM |
| Location: | Delta Hotel Centre-Ville, 777 University Street, Montreal, QC H3C 3Z7 |
| (Square-Victoria Metro) | |
| Questions? : | construction@habitatmontreal. |
Tags: Habitat for Humanity · Montreal · St-Henri8 Comments
8 responses so far ↓
That’s great! All kinds of good things like that could be done but you are right, our construction unions would start shooting people.
Seriously. Shooting rampage material. I was helping out on one of their builds in the east end two years ago and an RBQ inspector came on site and asked for everyone’s name…?! The HforH supervisor asked everyone to cooperate, but WTF. These were people volunteering their time to help fellow citizens buy their first home. And here are the Provincial reps coming on site and intimidating them everyday. Yes, he apparently visited everyday. Just despicable.
Comme il va sans dire, I don’t support corruption in unions, business or government, but I am very proud of the strength of our trade-union movement here in Québec and the many forms of social progress this has made possible.
Habitat for Humanity may be a noble cause - though it is anti-environmental in many places as it promotes single-family homes , which create sprawl in urban areas - but it is no substitute for restoring funding for building social housing such as HLMs, co-operative and OBNLs (non-profit housing corporations).
The latest projects for social housing have been greened in many ways, though there is still a long way to go. A new neighbourhood is going up near métro Rosemont with a mixture of co-ops, an HLM for elderly people and affordable condos, with many green features.
And yes, built by workers with proper wages and working conditions.
Maria, I would hardly call the last HforH build in Hochelaga Maisonneuve a cause for urban sprawl. Seeing as it was a duplex and all, would kind of refute your single family home claim as well. This current build, being in ST-HENRI (please refer to map of Montreal) would also be shining example of in-fill development. I understand Habitat in Ontario builds plenty of row/town houses for families in need of a step up and find your notions ill conceived and poorly researched.
Unions…well that’s another story. Unions are responsible for leaving a man lying in agony with a partially ruptured appendix for 6 hours while they used him and many others as pawns in their latest pressure tactic game… yah, unions. Wonderful.
Nothing like so-called Greens with zero class-consciousness.
Yours for Ecosocialism. Death to capitalist greenwashing and anti-worker crap.
You also misread me. I know the Saint-Henri project is duplexes (though actually it should probably be at least triplexes), I am a long-term tenants’ association - and environmental - activist and was very up on the programme.
Here is what I actually wrote:
Habitat for Humanity may be a noble cause - though it is anti-environmental in many places as it promotes single-family homes , which create sprawl in urban areas - but it is no substitute for restoring funding for building social housing such as HLMs, co-operative and OBNLs (non-profit housing corporations).
“In many places” is not synonymous with St-Henri. They have built a lot of single-family homes in the US - an urban form that should quite simply no longer be built in urban areas.
And I reiterate, this well-intentioned and rather paternalistic scheme for the “deserving poor” (shades of Victoriana) is no substitute for the many forms of social housing developed in Canada and other countries across the globe over the 20th century. To take a green example, Amsterdam has a very high percentage of social housing.
I wrote in a post on a forum. No, I didn’t “research” the post per se but I am well informed of the issue, and it is very contemptuous of you to assume otherwise.
Your anti-union stuff is disgusting. Do you have any inkling of the relation to health and safety and environmental issues, or the concept of industrial reconversion (converting harmful or polluting industries, such as military or car, into sociallly-useful ends, while protecting workers’ jobs).
But I fear you are just a spokesbot for rightwing pseudo-greens, such as the so-called “Green Party” here.
I did not deny that corruption existed in the trade union movement as in any other part of civil society, but when you look at what the ruling class is doing to plunder pension funds and the planet, this is a diversion.
Death to capitalist Greenwashing AntiUnion Haters… god I was rolling on the floor laughing. Just picturing you hammering away at your keyboard, striving to bring me up to speed on the truth and nobility of our shining union struggles here in Quebec. Listen, you obviously have WAY more experience in the ways of the poor and hungry here in the belle province, so I won’t try and explain what I was getting at in my post or comments. Congratulations. Because really, should I try and argue with someone who calls the de Maisonneuve bike path by it’s real name? Seriously, should I?
I find it sad indeed that someone who claims to ge ecologist or Green holds Québec social history in such contempt. Sure there are corrupt unions, but their corruption is niggling with respect to the many financial scandals now rocking the world economy. The trade union movement here has played a key role in social progress, in terms of women’s rights, secularism and many other key factors in a progressive society.
Most lack of care for patients is caused by funding cutbacks - the very thing unions are protesting in the healthcare sector.
It is your blog and I don’t care what anti-union nonsense you post on it, but it is sad that someone with such reactionary views should claim to be an ecologist.