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“What happened on Peel is just the tip of the iceberg.”
That’s according to Serge Sasseville, independent city councillor for the Ville-Marie borough, referring to last week’s Grand Prix terrasse fiasco.
He said the incident underscores a troubling pattern among some of the city’s police and fire inspectors.
“The problem is that, at the fire department and at the ‘morality’ section of the department of police of Montreal, there are some bad elements in the agents that do a ‘power-trip,’” he told Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein in this week’s episode of The Corner Booth.
Sasseville spoke alongside Glen Castanheira, executive director of Montreal centre-ville, the downtown merchant’s association, who said restauranteurs are afraid to speak out about these issues because they’re worried they’ll be targeted.
“Nobody else likes to speak out about this because the threat of reprisal [is] so high that you can lose your business.”
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