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LA MALBAIE — His home has been tagged the safest in Canada.

When Rosaire Tremblay retired and bought his bright red and white house in Pointe-au-Pic on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, he never dreamed he would one day find himself alone in a top-level security zone of a major international event: the Group of Seven Summit (G7).

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Today, Tremblay’s house is on a kind of island, behind the three-metre-tall security fence built around the Manoir Richelieu and the Casino de Charlevoix where the June summit will take place.

The only residence in what security officials have deemed the summit “red zone,” Tremblay’s house is just below the cliff on which the Manoir sits. Even the 153-step wooden stairway to the top is inside the fence and will be off limits to pedestrians.

During the summit, the red zone will be accessible only to heads of state, their staff, police and people working in the hotel and casino.