An official with the city of Montreal's urban planning department makes the case for bylaw changes during the Urban Development Commission hearings into the future of Benny Farm last Monday at City Hall. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the crown corporation that owns the land, brought in a busload of veterans for the hearings to help quash local opposition to their plan. But for Jason Hughes of the NDG Community Council, which has been organizing opposition to the CMHC's plan, the veterans are being used as pawns. "Our beef isn't with the veterans or even with the city," Hughes says. "We just wish the CMHC would sit down with the people in the community and work out a mutually acceptable solution." Photo by Normand Blouin/Agence Stock >>>