Last operation of snow removal: Montreal denies having wanted to make savings

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Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:36

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The mayor of Montreal and the head of the snow removal had to make a new update on the last operation of snow removal that has caused a lot of discontent. They were assured that their administration was not willing to savings.

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On the 27th of January, Jean-François Parenteau, mayor of Verdun borough, and responsible for snow removal, has apologized to the Montreal for the delay in announcing the pickup of the snow and ice of sidewalks.

“The thaw is not as great and the build scheduled for Monday is no more-you. In hindsight we would have been able to enact before. This was a bad choice on my part and I apologize for that”, he wrote Saturday night on Twitter.

Five days later, the mayor and held to clarify what happened. “In any case, the loading has not been decreed for financial matters. It was never even in the thought or anything,” he said Wednesday afternoon at the city hall of Montreal.

More details to come.