Montreal mosque denies asking that female construction workers be barred from site
MONTREAL — Members of a Montreal mosque have vigorously denied a televised report they asked for female construction workers to be excluded from a site opposite their building.
Mosque officials dismissed the TVA report, while an electrical services commission that awarded the contract to another company told The Canadian Press the only proviso in the document was that there be access to the mosque’s parking lot for Friday prayers.
The company, called G-TEK, did not reply to requests for an interview.
The TVA report also said women on the site were intimidated but Serge Boileau, president of the electrical commission, said the contract was drawn up, in collaboration with the mosque, by a group of almost exclusively women engineers.