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Montreal’s opposition party wants the city to provide free menstrual products — tampons and pads — in all city buildings.

“It’s a question of equality of the sexes and common sense,” Ensemble Montréal house leader Karine Boivin-Roy said Tuesday.

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“In bathrooms, you have toilet paper that’s free, you have soap that’s free, so we’re saying, ‘Well, tampons and sanitary products should be free (in city buildings) as well.”

Boivin-Roy said Ensemble will present a motion to that effect at the June 17 city council meeting.

She said the hygiene products should be made available to the public at 370 municipal buildings, including swimming pools, arenas, recreation centres, libraries and cultural centres.

It would cost about $200,000 to outfit every city building with two dispensers, said Boivin-Roy, a city councillor in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. She did not know how much it might cost annually to supply tampons and pads.