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10-30-2009, 05:59 PM
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Montreal a 'corrupt, crumbling, mob-ridden disgrace'
Montreal a 'corrupt, crumbling, mob-ridden disgrace'
Thu, 2009-10-29 22:43.
Richard Deschamps
CJAD
Montreal is a corrupt, crumbling, mob-ridden disgrace.
The current issue of Maclean's magazine has that as a big, splashy headline on its cover -- the cover story being about Montreal's scandal-ridden municipal election campaign, which is winding down this week.
Another sub-headline adds, 'what was once Canada's most glamourous city is now a disgrace, even the mayor fears for his life.'
The article plays up the recent suggestions that the mob has a hand in the awarding of city contracts, and the funding of candidates' election campaigns.
Voting day is this coming Sunday.
Montreal is a disaster
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10-31-2009, 04:59 PM
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No companies want to take their business there.. knowing it may not be part of Canada in the future.
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11-02-2009, 03:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThroatGuzzler
No companies want to take their business there.. knowing it may not be part of Canada in the future.
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I am not a separatist by any stretch but that's awfully simplistic.
Is Canada as it exists today the only place in the world where businesses want to/will want to set up shop?  |
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11-03-2009, 01:54 PM
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Hellllloooo?
Is there going to be some Montreal bashing in this thread?
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11-08-2009, 06:06 PM
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I'd rather bash Toronto (kidding).
I love Montreal.
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11-09-2009, 04:07 PM
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Sounds like Rhode Island.... or maybe Philly...
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11-10-2009, 11:52 AM
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Montreal is...despite all of the condos going up (just suburban folks moving to town) becoming a great bastion of francophone backwater. If it werent for the transfer payments from Ottawa, things would be far worse. One look at the crumbling turcotte interchage, one look at vacant townhouses in downtown, one look at the continuation of english schools closing. This city and province are in deep trouble. Having grown up in NEw England...Montreal is even MORE corrupt than Rhode Island. This province is dirt poor, they dont care...because they know know other provinces will pay to "shore them up". Disgusting...and a shame. Most of the Bronfmans dont live there anymore...and that should be a GLARING statement of how far this place has fallen.
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11-13-2009, 11:45 PM
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Quebec has always been corrupt. Nothing new there.
It started with Champlain and got worse from there.
Many people care about the lack of economic progress in Quebec, unfortunetly few of them are in the French majority.
Since the 70's the French have used their votes both Federally and Provincially to hold the rest of the country hostage.
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11-14-2009, 07:45 PM
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Quite the headline Macleans has there...
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11-17-2009, 12:33 AM
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Montreal did not look poor when I was there.
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