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Quebec’s Fiscal Squeeze: High Vehicle Fees, Crumbling Roads, Failing Transit, and the Province’s Role in Canadian Federal Transfers

Quebec drivers know the annual ritual all too well. Every year, around your birthday, the SAAQ sends a notice: pay up to keep your licence active. For a clean record in 2026, that’s roughly $50 (including insurance contribution and admin fe

The Quebec "Summer Shutdown" Conspiracy: How High Taxes, Pothole Roads & REM/STM Closures Might Be the Province's Biggest Money-Laundering Machine (Patterns Don't Lie)

Listen up, Canada. Every summer, like clockwork, Montreal’s roads turn into a war zone of orange cones, and public transit (STM metro lines + the shiny new REM) goes full apocalypse mode. In summer 2025, the REM - that “future of transit” l

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