With rent due on Wednesday across the province, Quebec tenants are banding together to demand the cancellation of rent and mortgage payments for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis.
Grassroots movement have launched petitions urging both the federal and provinical government’s to take immediate action. “We mean cancel, we don’t mean push back,” said Montreal tenant Sunny Doyle. “We mean no rent, no mortgage so that people won’t be accruing debt.” Doyle is also taking part in the “white sheet campaign”, a Montreal-based online initiative where people hang white sheets outside their balconies and doors to show their support for a rent strike or the cancellation of payments. “It symbolizes truce, it symbolizes peace and care,” she said. “It’s