If there is one subject that regularly comes up in our media, it is that of homelessness in our cities. In the midst of the municipal election campaign in Quebec, the subject is being discussed more than ever. In Quebec, the leader of the strong and proud Quebec party, Bruno Marchand, mentioned Thursday during a press briefing that he was targeting zero homelessness by 2025. This is a great commitment.
Outgoing mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, has made great efforts over the past four years to try to stem homelessness in her city. It is to his credit, moreover.
The homeless in our cities suffer from several ailments, we would be tempted to say, but the greatest is not the extreme loneliness that they are called to live and that they carry like a weight under their clothes of misery ?
I recently read in a scientific journal that loneliness is one of the greatest evils, even one of the greatest plagues of the XXI.e century.
If the loneliness that many of us are called to live in the comfort of our homes is to be deplored, can we imagine how that of the homeless has no common measure, especially at minus 20 degrees Celsius in full winter?
Whenever politicians commit to tackling the problems of homelessness, they often face the indifference of the population, as if this defect in our society was the least of our evils.
This only further isolates the homeless in our cities. Even more marginalized, even more alone.
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