Yellow squares in Outremont: Valérie Plante denounced the incident

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Valerie Plant

Sarah Daoust-Braun

Wednesday, march 7, 2018 14:20

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The mayor of Montreal’s Valerie Plante responded Wednesday to the controversy of the port of yellow squares at the session of the council of the borough of Outremont to protest against the number of school buses jews, holding the policy action “unacceptable”.

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The mayor has recognised that there may sometimes be differences within the same community. “However, I consider that to conduct a political action against children is unacceptable,” she said in a written statement.

A group of residents of Outremont was presented on Monday evening at the meeting of the borough council, with a yellow square to denounce the too much presence of buses for children of the hasidic jewish community, which run 12 months a year.

For many, the choice of color reminiscent of the yellow star of David that jews had to wear during the Second world War to be identified by the nazi regime.

“The choice of the symbol chosen is a severe lack of sensitivity,” added Valérie Plant.

The leader of the opposition Lionel Perez has also reported the incident on Facebook, Tuesday evening, calling it “disappointing and sad”.

“We have the duty to memory and to raise civic awareness in the face of the most monstrous genocide of the 20th century,” he writes.