“To make money, it takes money,” tell us the accountants, financial advisers and all the crosseurs in the company.
Similarly, to emancipate oneself, to set in motion, to spread one’s wings and to free oneself, it takes space. The latter being intimately intertwined in time, it therefore takes a highly sought-after natural resource: spatiotemporal richness.
Montreal is nevertheless rich, there are plenty of empty spaces there that beg to be exploited: unoccupied commercial premises, deserted workspaces, uninhabited apartment buildings (to escape the rules in force, as for subsequent renovations), land vacant, name them, it’s full. You just have to walk there.
What wealth potential is sleeping in silence, while we are living through a housing crisis that has lasted too long!
What are we doing, Madam Mayoress, with all these empty spaces in Montreal, while people, the homeless, the destitute sleep outside? While citizens are desperate for housing? While artists need spaces to work, to create?
Montreal is rich in space. It would just take time and a little effort.
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