Love Montreal but it has a long way to "get it together," especially as it seems to be going the wrong way year after year. Quebec politicians (province and municipal) are extremely lost and incompetent.
I live downtown. I resent billions of my taxes being spent on bridges for sprawl. Those people who want to live so far that it costs a fortune to get to them should pay a tax that reflects their costly choices.
I'd have to see what portion of our municipal taxes are going towards these bridges. I thought some bridges were federal or provincial jurisdiction. Still coming out of our pockets, but on a more macro level.
@@ljaguinaga I think it's actually a mix, but still, center-city residents effectively give a welfare hand-out to people in the burbs, at a national and/or local level, and that's just not fair, and should be brought up more often in political debates. They should pay for what their lifestyle actually costs, relatively speaking, for the government to sustain it. You want to live in the middle of nowhere? Well fine, but here's your much higher car registration fee, your much higher water tax and so on. And that's not even touching what an environmental disaster sprawl is.
We also pay taxes on the south shore for Montreal s public transport ( subway) . south shore is included in the greater Montreal . Toronto is even worst with cities merged as far as 130 km away in order to get the pretentious title of the largest city in Canada but the worst polluted and low quality of life .
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Love Montreal but it has a long way to "get it together," especially as it seems to be going the wrong way year after year. Quebec politicians (province and municipal) are extremely lost and incompetent.
I have to agree! We're hoping for a change in our politicians in order to bring the city back to what it once was! We still have it in us!
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I live downtown. I resent billions of my taxes being spent on bridges for sprawl. Those people who want to live so far that it costs a fortune to get to them should pay a tax that reflects their costly choices.
I'd have to see what portion of our municipal taxes are going towards these bridges. I thought some bridges were federal or provincial jurisdiction. Still coming out of our pockets, but on a more macro level.
@@ljaguinaga I think it's actually a mix, but still, center-city residents effectively give a welfare hand-out to people in the burbs, at a national and/or local level, and that's just not fair, and should be brought up more often in political debates. They should pay for what their lifestyle actually costs, relatively speaking, for the government to sustain it. You want to live in the middle of nowhere? Well fine, but here's your much higher car registration fee, your much higher water tax and so on. And that's not even touching what an environmental disaster sprawl is.
We also pay taxes on the south shore for Montreal s public transport ( subway) . south shore is included in the greater Montreal . Toronto is even worst with cities merged as far as 130 km away in order to get the pretentious title of the largest city in Canada but the worst polluted and low quality of life .
Excellent analysis.
Thank you!