Surely the editor knows that the  site of the former Hippodrome de Montreal (which the author quaintly refers to by its illegal English name Blue Bonnets) has long been promised as the location for 5,000 new housing units, 30% of which are promised for "social housing" (gotta love that euphemism). 

Is he proposing that this be made available instead to Amazon?

Surely this would create an uproar; however I wouldn't put it past Mayor Coderre to do it.

And despite the author's claims that this is a bilingual city, officially it is not and Bill 101 still applies. Internal correspondence will have to be in French, children brought along will have to go to french schools, and so on.


And then there is the intolerable traffic situation which is slated to go on for years. We have already been warned not to bother using GPS starting in the fall, as it won't keep up with  road closures  and detours.