Controversy in Outremont: “the color yellow has been very ill-chosen”

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Wednesday, march 7, 2018 12:33

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MONTREAL – A handful of citizens expressed their ras-le-bol against the “too large number” of school buses circulating in the streets of Outremont, Monday, at the meeting of the borough council.

These residents have pinned a yellow square on their clothes to symbolize the school bus. But this choice has caused controversy. For many, the yellow of the square is reminiscent of the star of David that were to be the Jews during the Second world War.

“The color yellow has been very ill-chosen,” said the councillor of the district Fanny Magini, Wednesday, in an interview with Mario Dumont.

“If the squares are yellow, this is not to recall past history, it is that a bus is yellow”, however, says the citizen Ginette Charter, Monday, in front of the elected officials of the borough of Outremont.

According to this resident, the school bus for the children of the hasidic jewish community are too great a number.

“I would like citizens to know that the meaning of this yellow square, it is to denounce the too-large number of school buses that do door-to-door in our residential streets and the block, and this, 12 months per year,” added Ms. Charter, which described the situation as “stressful” and “not safe”.

For the councillor of the district Fanny Magini, the situation addressed by the yellow squares don’t exist.

“There is no problem with the school bus in Outremont. On the contrary, it wants more. However, there is a traffic problem in Outremont, especially in the morning, at rush hour,” said Mrs. Magini.

“It bothers a small group of people who came with a yellow square to the borough council. It is necessary to be careful not to generalize”, she concluded.