March 2026 – Québec: the province where “oops” means “open your wallet.” Make a mistake in the system? No worries – they’ll just hike taxes or slap on new fees to make you, the citizen, pay for their stupidity. It’s like the government treats residents as an infinite ATM: withdraw whenever they need to cover their ass. High taxes already? Wait till the next blunder – you’ll be funding that too. Take the A25 bridge fiasco as Exhibit A. Built as a “toll bridge to ease traffic” (ha!), it’s so overpriced and poorly managed that drivers ditch it like a bad date. Instead, everyone piles onto Highway 40 or the free 25 to get to Laval, turning Montréal into a perpetual parking lot. See? Even locals don’t want to stay – they’re just using the island as a stepping stone to Laval, Longueuil, Mirabel, or anywhere not here. That explains the stupid traffic every year: minimum 60 km/h zones where it’s bumper-to-bumper chaos because the dude in front of you bought his license on Snapchat last night. If you want to survive driving in Québec or Montréal, treat every other driver like an unskilled rookie who got their permit from a shady online deal. “Why not?” – because common sense is optional here. I just realized why there’s always traffic: Montréal isn’t a city; it’s a bridge to everywhere else. East, west, north, south – you’re just passing through, and the island’s the choke point. Leaving Montréal? Plan for 1 hour minimum, 2 if it’s rush hour (which is always). “Damn, that’s crazy” – yeah, and it explains why the highways are eternal hellscapes. Why live in Montréal at all? There’s nothing interesting unless you force yourself to find it – overpriced poutine, gray skies, and endless construction cones. Better places elsewhere with smarter people. Keep paying those high taxes for services that leak like a sieve and never change. The government screws up (bridges no one uses, traffic they can’t fix, drivers they can’t train), and you’re the sheep getting sheared. They’ll take your skin to build a coat and blame you if it doesn’t fit. Victim? That’s you in the file – just another number funding their next mistake. Ditch Québec if you can. Or stay, pay up, and watch the system laugh while you sit in traffic. Tabarnak, indeed.