A single mother in Mascouche is completely exasperated because the lift for her son, who is in a wheelchair, has not been working since May.
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Christiane St-Georges, mother of four children, now has to carry her son outside the house. Louis-David, 14, has muscular dystrophy and weighs 100 pounds.
“I’m all alone, and I have four mouths to feed,” exclaims the lady. “Physically it’s also difficult, is there someone who will pay me for massage therapy, chiropractic?”
The company that takes care of the maintenance of the elevator refuses to go and recharge it because the mother has not done permanent electrical work on the house.
Ms. St-Georges explains that she has been looking for an electrician since May, to no avail.
“In the context of a labor shortage, I called regarding 150 electricians and not everyone does that,” she laments in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
In addition, the company threatens to take legal action once morest the mother, because she owes the company several thousand dollars.
“They threaten me, they won’t come back to recharge the batteries as long as they don’t get paid,” says Ms. St-Georges.
The mother is impatiently awaiting government subsidies so that she can get her head above water and help her son move around in a wheelchair. She hopes that the work will be done before the start of the school year, to allow her son to return to class with peace of mind.
