The long fight for a sports center in Montréal-Nord
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Despite a $55M announcement from the federal government, this sports infrastructure requested since 2009 is still missing about $15M to complete the entire project. And Quebec is keeping us waiting.
"I can't wait for the first shovelful of dirt and to be able to say: now we're off," exclaims Montreal-North mayor Christine Black excitedly following this announcement. Except that she will have to hold her horses as long as Quebec doesn't respond to her request for participation in funding this Sports Center, a project that dates back to 2009 in this borough.
In addition to the $90M from the City of Montreal, the federal government just announced in its budget an amount of $39.8M which increases an initial amount of $15M announced last March by MP Emmanuel Dubourg just before leaving political life.
To talk to us about this project, Jean Numa Goudou met with mayor Christine Black.