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A city commission is recommending that Montreal join a legal challenge launched in Federal Court last November to strike down Canada Post’s ongoing plans to install community mailboxes and phase out door-to-door delivery.

“We’re taking a hard line,” Sud-Ouest borough Mayor Benoit Dorais, chairman of the commission on social development and Montreal diversity, said in an interview Tuesday night before unveiling the recommendations at city hall.

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“We’re urging the city and the agglomeration council to take all possible action against Canada Post and the federal government.”

The commission’s 30-page report follows public hearings that were held last month on Canada Post’s plans.

Dorais noted that Canada Post has already set up community mailboxes in Kirkland, Lachine, Pierrefonds and Île-Bizard, and has informed other boroughs of the locations of future mailboxes. A total of 700,000 houses on Montreal Island would be affected.