Bell Canada is making increasingly strong suggestions that CTV Montreal should move out of the Bell campus on Nuns’ Island, where it has been housed since a flood at its studio in August.

“We’re obviously prepared to help out in an emergency, no questions asked,” said Bell facilities director Jean-Sébastien Canoulart. “But we think it’s time for CTV Montreal to spread its wings and gain some independence again.”

CTV Montreal insists it’s not trying to just mooch off of free rent, and is contributing to the Bell campus’s upkeep, including taking out the garbage and doing the dishes. It notes that it’s doing way more than sister stations Noovo and RDS who also had to move into their parent company’s spare room.

Nevertheless, it says it totally plans to move out once it has some things taken care of, like the federal election. And maybe the municipal election this fall. And the provincial election next year.