Josh Freed: Thumbing through the expenses for Montreal 375 projects

I have finally seen the much-discussed granite tree stumps on Mount Royal — and I’m stumped.
A small cluster of grey stone lumps showed up on the mountain last week, in an area dotted with actual tree stumps.
There’s nothing ugly about the slanted granite “stumps,” or the French poems engraved on them. But I prefer the real stumps, which are homegrown on our mountain — and definitely cheaper than the $3.45 million for several dozen granite ones.
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