Public Transit Spending To Be Priority In Montreal Region

"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."