City of Montreal not ruling out regular mandatory building inspections
The city of Montreal says it's not ruling out mandatory building inspections in the wake of the Peel Street tragedy last week that saw a 33-year-old woman killed when a slab of concrete fell off from a hotel.
"Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a catastrophe like that to react," Claude Dauphin says. The chairman of Montreal's executive committee and also in charge of public secuirty says they're waiting on reports from inspectors assigned to the Peel Street building accident.
A slab of concrete fell off from the 18th floor façade of the Marriott Residence Inn and crashed through the atrium of the restaurant below where Léa Guilbeault was celebrating her birthday with her husband. He suffered serious injuries to his hands.
Dauphin says mandatory building inspections are not out of the question and if they have to set up new regulations to boost those of provincial bodies such as the Régie de Bâtiment which oversees such inspections, they will, suggesting the status quo may not be enough.
"They work by complaints. So if they work by complaints, I don't think it's sufficient. So we have to do something else," Dauphin says.
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