MONTREAL — Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is asking the Quebec government to appoint a “top gun” for homelessness ahead of an expected provincial cabinet shuffle.

She made the request at a news conference on Tuesday during which she also proposed to spend nearly $22.5 million to tackle homelessness.

Plante asked Premier François Legault “to make a strong gesture, up to the magnitude of the crisis raging throughout Quebec.”

Legault has said he will shuffle his cabinet this fall, amid rising dissatisfaction with his government. Plante said it’s the right time to have a minister dedicated to managing what she called a humanitarian crisis.

Homelessness “deserves a top gun,” Plante said, borrowing an expression Legault uses for his top staff.

Homelessness currently falls under the responsib

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