A shopping mall and office complex in downtown Montreal is being criticized for using the popular children’s song “Baby Shark” to discourage unhoused people from loitering in its emergency exit stairwells.
The Canadian PressComplexe Desjardins is seen in Montreal on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. The shopping mall and office complex in downtown Montreal is being criticized for using the popular children's song"Baby Shark" to discourage unhoused people from loitering in its emergency exit stairwells. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Complexe Desjardins, named after financial services company Desjardins, which owns the mall and the three office towers that sit above it, has been playing the music for one year in the stairwells to respond to “security issues” involving people experiencing homelessness, spokesperson Jean-Benoît Turcotti said Thursday.But one advocate for the homeless calls the tactic"cruel and unusual.
Watts said he recognizes that merchants and other people are concerned by the increasing visibility of homelessness, but “the answer isn't to do things that are going to further make people who are vulnerable even more vulnerable.”
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