In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor comparing a car to a refrigerator.

The local mayor — Laurence Lavigne Lalonde — said during a 2023 council meeting that the City of Montreal has no more responsibility to guarantee residents free parking in front of their homes than it does to give them free public storage for their fridge. Public space needs to be shared, she said, even if that means removing some parking for bike lanes and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.

“She says your fridge is like your car — that it’s not (her) role to know where you put it,” Martinez Ferrada dismissively told her main opponent, Luc Rabouin, leader of Lavigne Lalonde

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