The 15 mayors of the Montreal island suburban municipalities are calling on Affaires municipales et de l’Occupation du territoire Minister Martin Coiteux to initiate a review process for the rules of governance and cost-sharing within the Agglomeration of Montreal in order to restore fairness for all Montreal Island residents.

The 15 mayors of the suburban municipalities of the Montreal Island are urgently asking the Plante-Dorais administration to revise the inflationary budget that it submitted on Wednesday of this week. To everyone’s surprise, the new budget brings in tax hikes that are, on average, twice as high as in previous years and nearly six times the inflation rate for some of the Island’s municipalities!