Public Transit Spending To Be Priority In Montreal Region

Mayor promises to pressure Quebec, Canada to sign contract with feds for excise-tax deal.

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April 16, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Public transit will be the spending priority for the Montreal region if the federal and provincial governments come through with promised new revenue sources for municipalities, a high-powered forum of political, business, labour, health and environmental leaders from across the Montreal Metropolitan region pledged yesterday.The federal government has promised to help finance municipalities by giving them a cut of the federal excise tax on gasoline, which drops about $4.5 billion into federal coffers each year."

Thanks to Craig Townsend

FULL STORY: Transit to become priority

Friday, April 15, 2005 in The Montreal Gazette

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