MONTREAL - Dozens of residents of a town northeast of Montreal where the Port of Montreal wants to expand capacity at a container facility say the project is unnecessary and harmful.

Residents demonstrated Sunday to show their opposition to the project, which is among the first group of five nation-building infrastructure projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes to see approved and implemented quickly under the Building Canada Act.

Residents argue the plan to have Contrecœur terminal to eventually handle an estimated 1.5 million containers annually is one that is harmful to health, the environment, as well as being unnecessary.

The federal government and port officials say the project is to meet a future need but its opponents have argued it doesn't fall under a project of nationa

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