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HOZ · 12-26-2009, 05:42 PM

Chicago of the 1930's!! We need the Canadian Elliot Ness!!

And you wonder why the Olympic Oval cost a billion!!!

McLeans

Montreal has become a chronically underperforming city burdened by an archaic governmental structure, a bloated public sector (Montreal’s city council has twice as many elected ofﬁcials as New York City), and what many say is an endemic culture of corruption. More and more of its citizens are taking refuge in the suburbs, while big business continues to ﬂee for Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. Montreal is saddled with the largest debt of any major Canadian city, and its infrastructure is a leaking, potholed mess. It costs 30 per cent more to build a stretch of road in Quebec than anywhere else in the country, and a recent multi-million-dollar water contract was cancelled after its cost ballooned from $154 million to nearly $356 million.

12-26-2009, 05:42 PM	#1
HOZ Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	Montreal: From glamorous to a corrupt mess Chicago of the 1930's!! We need the Canadian Elliot Ness!! And you wonder why the Olympic Oval cost a billion!!! McLeans Montreal has become a chronically underperforming city burdened by an archaic governmental structure, a bloated public sector (Montreal’s city council has twice as many elected ofﬁcials as New York City), and what many say is an endemic culture of corruption. More and more of its citizens are taking refuge in the suburbs, while big business continues to ﬂee for Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. Montreal is saddled with the largest debt of any major Canadian city, and its infrastructure is a leaking, potholed mess. It costs 30 per cent more to build a stretch of road in Quebec than anywhere else in the country, and a recent multi-million-dollar water contract was cancelled after its cost ballooned from $154 million to nearly $356 million.