Article content City land grab in Pointe-aux-Trembles a ‘scam,’ grandson says The city of Montreal has perpetrated a “monumental scam” to grab plots of land belonging to several individuals in a vacant field in Pointe-aux-Trembles that happens to sit next to the future REM de l’Est, says the grandson of one of them. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or While you were sleeping: Start your week by thinking outside the box Back to video “In my personal opinion, it’s a scam,” said Bruno Martel, whose grandmother, Françoise Allard, died at the age of 90 in January 2020 before seeing a cent from the city for her two plots of land that it had initially tried to get her to hand over for free.