Seniors forced to leave Hochelaga-Maisonneuve retirement home early amid closure controversy [Video]

Several seniors at a private retirement home in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve are packing up and moving out months before they expected to.

The regional health authority says 72 seniors and their families were told in October that Manoir Louisiane wanted to stop operations by this summer.

But most of the elderly people at the home were forced out over the holidays.

Just under 10 remain at the retirement home.

“I used to live here,” one woman told CTV before getting in a taxi.

“Now I’m leaving. We all have to leave today.”

Noovo Info went inside the building and met another woman. She has an irregular heartbeat and wasn’t feeling well.

She said she was only warned a week ago that she had to leave.

“I’m very, very weak. I can’t move, and we have to hurry up and pick up everything.”

The woman added that workers with the retirement home offered her other accommodation, which was too expensive.

“It’s more than I can afford, but I’m forced to …