MONTR\u00c9AL, April 9, 2026 \/CNW\/ \u2013 Although modernization work on Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital is progressing, the cuts required by the government continue to slow the project by keeping it in the planning phase and therefore susceptible to being cut again. \u201cWhat will the final project look like?\u201d asks the HMR Coalition. It is the \u201coptimization\u201d work required by the government that is preventing the project from moving from planning to reality. Recall that the project had already been subjected to a first round of cuts in 2023 before facing a second round in 2025. <\/p>\n\n
\u201cWhile development work is carried out on one side, cuts are being made on the other. We must be consistent: we cannot move forward and backward at the same time. If the cuts do not end quickly, the renovation and expansion project for Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital will be reduced to a partial and incomplete project. The government must confirm that the cuts are over and that the project will officially be ready to move to the implementation phase in its current form,\u201d said Dr. Marc Brosseau, pulmonologist-intensivist and president of the CMDPSF of the CIUSSS of East Montreal.<\/p>\n\n
Repeated broken promises
\u201cThe relationship of trust with the government is broken, and until the excavator is actually digging, we will have doubts about the completion of this project, which is nevertheless vital for patients,\u201d lamented Denis Cloutier, president of the Syndicat des professionnels en soins de l\u2019Est-de-l\u2019\u00cele-de-Montr\u00e9al (FIQ SPS ESTIM).
As for \u00c9ric Clermont, president of the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs du CIUSSS de l\u2019Est de Montr\u00e9al \u2013 CSN, he stated that this announcement should have been made a year ago. \u201cThe delays are attributable solely to purely political decisions.\u201d <\/p>\n\n
\u201cSome profit from compound interest; in the case of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, cuts upon cuts are being made at the expense of services to users,\u201d worries Patrick Cothenet, president of the HMR Users\u2019 Committee.<\/p>\n\n
In closing, the president and CEO of the Chambre de commerce de l\u2019Est de Montr\u00e9al, Jean-Denis Charest, calls on the government and urges it to demonstrate greater transparency: \u201cThe government must do much more to convince the community. In this regard, we expect from the government and from whoever holds the position of premier a formal, clear, quantified and final commitment regarding the completion of the project as a whole, without further delays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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