Leaders in business and politics got more than they bargained for at Monday's Sommet de l'est, where protestors took the opportunity to call for greater tenant protections and the right to housing in the province.

The summit, organized by the Chamber of Commerce of the East of Montreal, featured Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbault, and provincial Housing Minister France-Elaine Duranceau, among others.

It was the last speaker who brought Montrealers out in protest. Led by the Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ), the Front de Lutte pour un Immobilier Populaire (FLIP), and Mobilisation 6600 - Parc Nature MHM, around a hundred people rallied outside of and in the entrance to the Olympic Stadium.

A few protestors made it into the room where Duranceau was speaking; some stormed the stage with a banner decrying Bill 31, while others addressed the minister with a megaphone from the audience.

They shared statistics illustrating Quebec’s worsening housing crisis, and denounced the government’s inaction. They also criticized the minister for meeting with 10 landlord associations and no tenant groups, and called on her to resign.

"How many evictions? How many homes lost? How many families in the streets? How many encampments? How many suicides will it take you to face the problem?" they asked.

Duranceau's Bill 31 has met with opposition from tenants' and civil society groups throughout the province. The controversial bill promises an end to lease transfers and a shift from social to affordable housing investment.

The protests were concluded by the afternoon, with police reporting that no arrests were made.

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