Pearl Eliadis on Enshrining a Right to Housing in Quebec
May 27, 2026 |聽Pearl Eliadis, chair of the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative's legislative reform project, joined CBC's Daybreak Montreal to discuss the coalition's new push for legal reform on homelessness in Quebec. Eliadis argues that adding the right to housing to the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms would give it "quasi-constitutional status," underpinning every Quebec law that touches housing.
Eliadis also spoke to The Canadian Press, in coverage carried by CTV News, on the coalition's specific recommendations, which include enshrining the right to housing in the Quebec Charter and setting binding reduction targets in law. She argues that a strengthened legal framework is needed "in order to hold the state legally accountable and to allow people who are truly in need to exercise recourse."
