2023-05-17 04:00:00
Anyone who knows a bit regarding Montreal knows Place Émilie-Gamelin.
It is a park located at the corner of Berri and Sainte-Catherine streets.
This public square is the equivalent of the Court of Miracles in Notre Dame de Parisby Victor Hugo.
The meeting place for beggars, the destitute, drug addicts.
Multi-poques.
You go there at any time of the day or night, and you’re sure to come across poor wretches shooting heroes or raving aloud.
WHAT BEAUTY!
Well, you’ll be happy to know that the City of Montreal will spend $426,000 to “add love and beauty” to this “mineralized area” and thereby improve “the currently negative experience of passersby. (I quote the official documents of the district).
Comment ?
By adding greenery and animal sculptures.
Yes sir. Animal carvings.
The homeless will continue to shit in the park, but they will do so in the shadow of a turkey sculpture.
And drug addicts will continue to shoot, but they can do so by leaning on a hedge in the shape of a rabbit.
This is called “taking the bull by the horns”.
The QUB radio studios are located across from Place Émilie-Gamelin.
Every day, I slalom between excrement, puddles of vomit and soiled needles to get to my job.
And every day, I say to myself: “But what is the City waiting for to install sculptures in the shape of animals? Seems to me that would be so beautiful! It would be so good! »
Well, there it is! Mayor Plante granted my wish.
I will finally have a “positive experience” when I go through the park!
Thanks to John XXIII for favors obtained.
MAKING UP THE PROBLEM
Welcome to 2023.
The important thing, in our time, is not to solve the problems – we can’t, it’s too hard, too complex.
It is to make these problems more “bearable”.
By changing the words we use to name them. Or hiding them under a thick layer of makeup.
Old people are left in soiled diapers for hours in CHSLDs? Their relatives will not visit them?
We’re going to give them little seal-shaped robots!
They will continue to suffer, but at least they will have something to flatter.
Awesome, right?
This is what we did at the CHSLD Saint-Léonard–Saint-Michel in 2012.
Your cousin lives down the street? He is not a “beggar”. It is a “homeless person in a homeless situation”.
It’s also hard, but it’s prettier, less discriminatory.
Ditto for the shops boarded up. They are covered with beautiful murals representing flowers or sunsets.
Why build housing for homeless people or tackle the sources of the many problems that have plagued the neighborhood where Place Émilie-Gamelin is located for decades when you can settle for installing sculptures in the shape of animals?
History of making “the experience of passers-by more positive”?
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