Mr. Speaker, alarm bells are sounding in southwest Montreal because an initiative based in the area I represent will never see the light of day thanks to this government's ideological and economic stubbornness.
Canada Post's old mail sorting facility in Little Burgundy was to be the site of an urban development project that would have promoted the preservation of the area's heritage, a variety of housing types and the creation of a major economic centre.
For nearly 150 years, this land along the Lachine Canal has been public property. Now this government plans to let the Canada Post Corporation sell the land to the highest bidder.
On behalf of the residents of southwest Montreal, I would like to add my voice to those of the Regroupement économique et social du Sud-Ouest, Bâtir son quartier and the Little Burgundy Coalition in asking the Minister of Transport to enable the Canada Lands Company to acquire the property.