He is on hunger strike in an unhealthy house

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Anne-Marie Forget and his son-in-law Alexander Casavant are sitting on the camp bed where he sleeps for four nights.

Dave Parent

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 01:00

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SAINT-ANDRÉ-D’ARGENTEUIL | A man of the Laurentians is the hunger strike to the inside of the home was damaged and unsafe for his parents-so that Québec pays out the money promised last spring, before the end of the work.

Since 26 January, Alexandre Casavant is installed on a camp bed in the house of his parents-in completely stripped of its walls, its floors and its insulation. He alerted the public with the help of videos shared on the social networks and the hunger strike.

“I drink water, it is safe, I am not without purpose. But yes, I’m hungry and I can’t wait for it to rule, ” he says.

The problem is that the parents don’t have the money to complete the work in their place of residence.

Quebec pays the money to the victims only when the work is finished. No bank agrees to help them since their residence is no longer of value.

“I’m not wealthy. My husband and I live modestly, there are jobs common, so we didn’t have the means to advance the money, ” said Anne-Marie Forget, owner of the residence to the Terrace Robitaille in Saint-André-d’argenteuil.

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The house was raised three feet, for floods in the future.

For it to advance

“I’m doing it for my parents-in-law, for it to advance, and I shan’t move from here as you will not get a response. In the meantime, I am doing work in the house, ” adds the man, 36-year-old, who works in the middle of the building.

Problems of parents-in-law began during the floods of April and may 2017. The water has invaded the house. When the situation subsided, mold and fungus had attacked the whole of the remains.

“Since the 21st of April, I left my house while it had 46 inches of water in my yard. I lived in my trailer until 18 November. There, I rent a house and pay my mortgage, ” says Anne-Marie Forget, owner of the residence and mother-in-law of Alexander Casavant.

Emergency work

The owners have first received an amount for emergency work, that is, to raise the house three feet to prevent it from being flooded again.

Contractors are not lining up at the doors to get the contracts. Them either do not wish to advance the money work without knowing when they will be paid.

The ministry of public Security has not made our calls, but the liberal member of parliament for Argenteuil, Yves St-Denis, says that he is following all the records of the district of near.

“It’s going not fast enough for my taste. There are a lot of people, it takes time, but I work hard to make things happen, let’s not forget that these floods, it has never been seen in Quebec, ” concludes Mr. St-Denis.

They have the support of elected officials as well as neighbors

Since the publication of their history on the social networks, the property owners affected have been the support of the community.

Elected officials and neighbors have offered support to help them through this ordeal.

The liberal member of parliament for Argenteuil, Yves St-Denis, has been present throughout the process to get the money promised to the victims, for the case of Ms. Forget, but also for other victims of the place.

The mayor of Saint-André-d’argenteuil elected last November, Marc-Olivier Labelle, has also been very active in the folder of the victims since his election.

A neighbour, Anne-Marie Forget also proposed to host it.

“My neighbours have a chalet nearby that they are renting in the winter, they proposed to me to rent the time that the case is resolved,” says the lady, who is delighted to see the solidarity moved into the community.

The social networks in support of

Alexander Casavant, who is on a hunger strike in the residence a disaster of his parents-in-law, is trying its best to alert the public opinion with the help of videos shared on social networks. So far, 110,000 people have seen one or the other of his videos of denunciation.

“When there are people in other countries, we send money, but the rest of us, payers of taxes, they send money [to the government] […] Ben, we need help “, lance-t-il surliness in his first video view by 104 000 users and shared more than 4000 times.

For his children

Temporarily provider of income security, Mr. Casavant is leading this crusade since 26 January.

“I have four children, so I’m doing it for them other also, and for all the other victims who are waiting for help from the government “, he explains.

The government has already paid out substantial sums to lift the residence to avoid further damage in case of flooding and to absorb the costs of accommodation of the owners.

– In collaboration with mylog.ca