{"id":4686,"date":"2011-07-04T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/montreal-serai-community-organizing-in-cote-des-neiges-then-and-now-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:19:59","slug":"montreal-serai-community-organizing-in-cote-des-neiges-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/montreal-serai-community-organizing-in-cote-des-neiges-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Organizing in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf8qrlk-1b2c08421317c2748a45c13dbc139d4f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf8qrlk-1b2c08421317c2748a45c13dbc139d4f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf8qrlk-1b2c08421317c2748a45c13dbc139d4f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf8qrlk-1b2c08421317c2748a45c13dbc139d4f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf8qrlk-1b2c08421317c2748a45c13dbc139d4f av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Montreal Serai &#8211; July 4, 2011<\/h5><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>(en anglais)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-dzsby-9379a078ea1356e0a739faa5ff990c2e\">\n.flex_column.av-dzsby-9379a078ea1356e0a739faa5ff990c2e{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-dzsby-9379a078ea1356e0a739faa5ff990c2e av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-2wglpa-cb7d6fae32c6b53c3ed3c96130cf3047 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealserai.com\/article\/community-organizing-in-cote-des-neiges-then-and-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6882 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Montreal Serai - Community organizing in CDN Then and Now\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-600x599.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai-450x449.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2011-0704-montreal-serai.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If the commercials are to be believed, there is nothing more Canadian then a Tim Horton\u2019s donut shop where coffee is served to hockey moms and seniors on cross-country road trips.<\/p>\n<p>On the Tim Horton\u2019s on the corner of Van Horne and Victoria in the midst of Montr\u00e9al\u2019s multicultural neighbourhood of C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, quite another Canadian scene is playing out.\u00a0 At 10pm, the space has been transformed into an immigrant community centre.\u00a0 Over a dozen Filipino men are playing chess while a few tables of Bengali men are reading and discussing the Bengali newspapers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18010\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18010\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Tim Horton&rsquo;s Community Centre&#8230;er..restaurant (Image: Serai)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With three mosques, three temples, 21 synagogues and 15 churches, C\u00f4te-des-Neiges has become a clich\u00e9 for multiculturalism or interculturalism (depending on who\u2019s speaking) substandard housing, and community organizing.<\/p>\n<p>A place of arrival for many, the neighbourhood, originally two francophone villages, in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, has seen waves of people come and go.\u00a0 To many people, though, it is home\u2014a crowded home\u2013 \u00a0the most densely populated neighbourhood in Montr\u00e9al with over 100,000 people, over half who were not born in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Jegatheeswaren, 58 years old, is a Tamil immigrant who came to C\u00f4te-des-Neiges in her 30s during the 1980s escaping the ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 \u00a0A former Indian Airlines employee, Jegatheeswaren started her travel agency in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, and later her own Tamil community organization.<\/p>\n<p>She remembers loving the neighbourhood as soon as she arrived, \u201cI thought when I came here that I had found paradise.\u00a0 People were so nice.\u00a0 I loved C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.\u00a0 I loved Montr\u00e9al.\u00a0 I went to my first French course.\u00a0 Oh my God! There were people from all over the world from different ethnicities.\u00a0 At one point, three or four months later, we started speaking in French.\u00a0 I felt, we were so connected, man.\u00a0 It was so nice.\u00a0 You look around here and you belong here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7oise Taub, 59, also came to C\u00f4te-des-Neiges from the opposite direction.\u00a0\u00a0 in 1979 \u201cyoung and fresh\u201d, she arrived from France crashing at a friend\u2019s house in the neighbourhood.\u00a0 Since then, she has chosen to also stay in the neighbourhood, and get involved in many of the 100 organizations in the neighbourhood.\u00a0 On the user\u2019s committee of the CLSC, the neighbourhood environmental group, and Project Genesis, she has also followed the development of the neighbourhood in the last few decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very vibrant neighbourhood, and above all, very multiethnic.\u00a0 And I love conversing with new people and learning about other cultures.\u00a0 In this way, I don\u2019t have to look too far.\u00a0 It is a neighbourhood where it is possible to meet the whole world.\u00a0 It is very vibrant not only because there are big hospitals, parks, and close to the mountain.\u00a0 \u00a0There is quite a lot of green space.\u00a0 And it is the best served neighbourhood by metro with six or seven metros.\u00a0 With so many organizations, and things going on, how can people get bored here?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18012\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18012\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata2.jpg 419w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sujata2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daren Laine (Image: Serai)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Daren Laine, 69, arrived in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges from British Columbia in the 1970s to live close to St. Mary\u2019s hospital where she worked.\u00a0 Also involved in Project Genesis, the Tenant\u2019s association and the C\u00f4te-des-Neiges Historical Association, she has tried to keep the history of C\u00f4te-des-Neiges alive. \u00a0When she started her activism, it was with the tenant\u2019s association, one of the first community organizations in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined for a very superficial reason.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have any tenants\u2019 problems, but I saw these notices on telephone posts showing this group of people holding up a glass of wine with a table of cheese in front of them saying come have a glass of wine and cheese and learn about your tenant\u2019s rights.\u00a0 \u2018oh,\u2019 I thought, \u2018I love wine and cheese, I\u2019m going.\u2019\u00a0 So it turned out that there was no wine and cheese, but the volunteers recruited me immediately.\u00a0 They turned out to be a wonderful group of people who I stayed with all these many years. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>She says that C\u00f4te-des-Neiges has definitely changed since she got there.\u00a0 Many of the organizations simply did not exist, and definitely not in the form they are now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was here working in the 70s and 80s, there were no community organizations with the professionals working in them.\u00a0 But in those days, they were just organizations by abused people without any academic education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tenant\u2019s association, at that time run by volunteers, became l\u2019OEIL CDN, a professional organization who is now celebrating its 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.\u00a0 Out of the existing organizations, only four were founded before 1970.\u00a0 Many organizations such as Multicaf, the Black Community Association, and the other 100 organization were born in the late 1970s or early 1980s during the Quiet Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The history of community organizations in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges is often entwined with the history of the neighbourhood itself.\u00a0 Prior to 1960, many of the community servoce organizations, such as St-Vincent-de-Paul, were connected to the Catholic Church, such as the St-Vincent-de-Paul.\u00a0\u00a0 With St. Joseph\u2019s Oratory, several Catholic churches, the Catholic influence is felt.\u00a0 Churches keep the tradition of <em>Pastorale sociale <\/em>or social service Christian organizing alive even today.\u00a0 Originally, this influence was French and Irish, but now Filipino and Haitian Montrealers fill \u00a0the neighbourhood\u2019s churches.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, Jewish immigrants mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia arrived in the neighbourhood bringing with them many social organizations: schools, community service organizations, and synagogues.\u00a0 The oldest Jewish organizations include the Baron de Hirsh Institute, in 1905, Allied Jewish Services in 1918, and others. \u00a0Now, the Jewish campus on Westbury contains a collection of Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Y, the Segal Centre, a senior\u2019s community centre, the Jewish Library and other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, waves of immigrants came from the Caribbean and Central America.\u00a0 The Black League of Qu\u00e9bec (Ligue des noirs du Qu\u00e9bec) started in 1969.\u00a0\u00a0 (Although blacks have been in Qu\u00e9bec since the colonization of New France) The 1970s was marked by the arrival of the Boat People from Vietnam, and other immigrants from Asia and Africa, and the arrival of multiethnic organizations like SIARIS (<em>Service d\u2019interpr\u00e8te, d\u2019aide et de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux immigrants<\/em>), PROMIS, <em>(<\/em><em>Promotion, int\u00e9gration, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nouvelle).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Schwartz is a community organizer at Project Genesis.\u00a0 He knows firsthand from Project Genesis\u2019s \u201cstorefront\u201d a walk-in housing and social rights service, how diverse they neighbourhood has become.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we know the storefront sees people from well over 100 countries every year.\u00a0 In terms of which communities that are well represented on the corner off C\u00f4te-Ste.-Catherine and Victoria, the Filipino community, a large Bengali community, a large Tamil community, and Russians.\u00a0 There are Russian speaking community in our neighbourhood.\u00a0 Also in the neighbourhood, the Vietnamese to an extent, so the neighbourhood has become more diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laine says that when she came into the neighbourhood, she came for many of the same reasons immigrants do, proximity to her work and cheap rent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seven institutions in the neighbourhood.\u00a0 You People get their job first and live close to your job especially if you are poor.\u00a0 That is how I got into C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.\u00a0 Also, the rumour was\u2014I don\u2019t know how true it was \u2013 that the least expensive housing areas were in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.\u00a0 It was also an English speaking section which many immigrants who come here were from the British Commonwealth so they could get jobs in the English institutions.\u00a0 They set up their shops.\u00a0 They bring their families and friends over.\u00a0 And they are used to the mentality of small businesses.\u00a0 They set up their little stores here out of pennies. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7oise Taub, herself, of Jewish background says that despite all of the talk of reasonable accommodation and ethnic conflict, people try to help each other out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is solidarity in the neighbourhood because of the immigrants have a habit of it.\u00a0 They have a habit of sticking together to help each other.\u00a0 A lot of immigrants come here because there are a lot of other immigrants.\u00a0 Because the Jews help each other out a lot it could have an impact on other communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taub says one example of this is Project Genesis. \u00a0\u00a0Schwartz. wasn\u2019t even born when the organization started over 30 years ago but explains the origins of\u00a0 Project Genesis which \u00a0started as a research project by McGill professor Jim Torczyner on Jewish poverty in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was difficult to reach them.\u00a0 There were a lot of elderly people in the Jewish community.\u00a0 And so what they brought back were many of the issues we see today: housing problems, illegal rent increases, rats, mice.\u00a0 What he said in his report was that if we got rid of the little old Jewish ladies\u2019 mice problem, and well the family from another country next door still has them, then they are going to come back in two weeks.\u00a0 So, we need an organization which helps people defend individually, but also collectively to you know, make the building better so that mice and rats don\u2019t come back for instance.\u00a0 But definitely, I do feel that there was a lot of that kind of tradition of social justice in the Jewish community fused in the organization definitely at day one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz says that the various communities have more to unite them than to divide them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I have never seen any intercultural tension.\u00a0\u00a0 I cannot really think of an example when accommodation was an issue.\u00a0 I think that the large issues of poverty and social inclusion are more important.\u00a0 You can\u2019t integrate if you have no adequate income, if you live in poverty, if you are socially excluded.\u00a0 The other question has to be well, are people socially marginalized because they choose to be or are they socially marginalized because they are economically marginalized?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople with very different histories and very different backgrounds need to meet on a common ground to discuss, that they, you know, inadequate housing affects everyone in our community, not just people from this country or people who have been here for an amount of time.\u00a0 It is an across-the-board issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While immigration has always been synonymous with poverty, and C\u00f4te-des-Neiges is known for its poverty- with 80 per cent of residents renting and a 12 per cent unemployment rate (compared to nine per cent for Montreal), it also has universities and hospitals and thus, many professionals and students living within the neighbourhood.\u00a0 There has always been a demarcation between \u201cupper\u201d C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, or South of C\u00f4te-Ste.Catherine and \u201clower\u201d C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, or the North of C\u00f4te-Ste. Catherine, for example.\u00a0 \u00a0Laine explains how this often came up when she wrote articles for the community paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I worked for the paper, I used to get a lot of complaints when I used to cover events.\u00a0 They would say, oh, why are you always writing about poor people?\u00a0 You are giving us a very bad image.\u00a0 It is not only about poor people. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Laine laughs \u201cTo this day, the image of the neighbourhood has not changed and the community organizations have made it worse.\u00a0 The poverty is very bad here, but at the same time near the Oratory, there are many wealthy people and private schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She theses economic cleavages have always existed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoverty was on specific streets as today.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t changed a lot.\u00a0 So you can tell the earning level by the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent and Carleton, though, in the 1970s, now full of duplexes turned into apartment buildings, used to be be one of the wealthier parts of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was in the middle between two poor sections. There used to be Rolls Royces and Jaguars and Porches parked on those streets. \u00a0\u00a0 And people were confused when they parked on those streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laine says that at the time St. Mary\u2019s was a upper class Irish hospital run by nuns.<\/p>\n<p>But Laine says the mix has been good for the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the combination of professionals with the community that makes a difference. \u00a0\u00a0For example, it was a research project at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al <em>which created the tenant\u2019s<\/em> association.\u00a0 Students started giving out their numbers and people kept calling after the project finished.\u00a0 It was University professor Jim Torczyner\u2019s project which created (Project) Genesis, and a Masters (project) of Jill Hanley with the participation of (Concordia University) Professor Eric Shragge which created the Immigrant Worker\u2019s Centre,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With professionals working with the community, people are able to shed a light on poverty and people\u2019s living conditions\u2014 living conditions which have not got any better in the last 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz says that over the last thirty years, welfare rates have barely risen, and only have recently kept up with the inflation rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelfare is an example of a program which over a decade ago provided much more meaning ful assistance to people, I mean if you were living in welfare in the late 1960s, you were still living in poverty but the proximity of your income to the poverty line was much closer than it is today.\u00a0 Welfare then would be about 895 dollars in today\u2019s dollars\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laine agrees, \u201cWhen I was laid off in 1983, I went on welfare at 500 dollars a month and it stayed around 500 a month until I became 60 years old.\u00a0 It never went up.\u00a0 And it has only now gone up 89 dollars.\u00a0 So for 30 years, it has gone up around 89 dollars. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>A while the cost of living\u2014telephones, hydro and gas has gone up, minimum wage and welfare hasn\u2019t increased as much.<\/p>\n<p>Food bank use in the neighbourhood has also gone up 28 per cent since the recession in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Housing, too, seems to have deteriorated in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the buildings used to have janitors.\u00a0 My landlord owned a building for 33 years and he used to be proud of his building.\u00a0 It was a treasure for them.\u00a0 They used to say .I own that building.\u00a0 Look at how nice it is kept!\u201d It was very prestigious,\u201d says Laine, \u201cBut then many landlords got rid of the janitors.\u00a0 Then they rented to immigrants because if you don\u2019t have a well-maintained building, you can\u2019t rent them for a high price.\u00a0 In the late 70s, it changed a bit, but then in the 80s, it went downhill. I remember a building that even in the 1980s, beautiful renovations were done.\u00a0 Now, it is 100 per cent slum.\u00a0 In fact, one of those buildings is now being condemned by the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taub agrees, \u201cHousing has become very expensive because many landlords are happy to collect their money without making the necessary repairs.\u00a0 There are many interventions and infractions from the city.\u00a0 Many buildings are unhealthy. And because immigrants do not complain because they are scared to lose their rights, certain people profit.\u00a0 Certain buildings have deteriorated.\u00a0 There is an increase in the demand for housing in the neighbourhood.\u00a0 Because there is more demand, many profit.\u00a0 It\u2019s always the law of supply and demand, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz explains that there has been no HLMs in the City since the 1990s, \u201cI suspect a generation ago that yeah, tenants were telling our outreach team the same thing, but the big difference that a generation ago, it wasn\u2019t a ten-year wait to get a social housing unit in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.\u00a0 Since there such a demand for housing, they have very little incentive to make improvements because tenants cannot go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tenants are often dealing with cockroaches, mold and the infestations of bed bugs on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz and Project Genesis have one solution to these problems: community action.\u00a0 At the C\u00f4te-des-Neiges-N\u00f4tre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce burrough meeting, \u00a0several neighbourhood resident asking elected officials about their plans for social housing.\u00a0 Many residents have shown up and are talking to politicians.\u00a0 Genesis encourages people to participate, learn their political system and to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>New issues come and old issues go.\u00a0 They are trying to fight to get welfare case workers in Montreal to meet their clients before they attribute welfare and not to have it done in a call centre in the Gasp\u00e9sie.\u00a0 They are trying to make it easier for tenants to complain and not so quick for landlords to evict tenants.\u00a0 The poor working condition of domestic workers, and temporary agencies are also some important problems which other organizations have been dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>And residents themselves come and go. \u00a0The majority of residents of C\u00f4te-des-Neiges have not been there for more than five years.\u00a0 Many immigrants place themselves there only temporarily while waiting for the arrival of the American dream\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see immigrants and their stores getting larger and larger. And then they pinch their pennies and save as much as they can to buy a house in the suburbs, in DDO or on the West Island,\u201d explains Laine.<\/p>\n<p>Jegatheeswaren agrees, \u201cNow, in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, there are very few Tamils.\u00a0 They have all moved out, you know, to the West Island.\u00a0 They have bought properties, there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Laine says, \u201cSome stay because the city is so conducive to their life and they set up their own community organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jegatheeswaren , Taub and Laine would definitely be part of this group.\u00a0 Jegatheeswaran would never consider leaving. \u00a0\u00a0She furrows her brow at the thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! No! No!\u201d she exclaims.\u00a0 \u201cI LOVE C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u00a0 It is becoming congested, but it is becoming a lot more lively. \u00a0\u00a0Look at it.\u00a0 You are never alone.\u00a0 At home, you have nobody, \u00a0\u00a0You haven\u2019t gone out for days and then suddently you come out and Oh my God, you belong here!\u00a0 To this community!\u00a0 That is how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><em><strong>Sujata Dey<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0is a community activist and journalist living in Montreal. 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