Montreal budget: Mayors call for changes to agglomeration rules

Mayors representing 15 independent municipalities are calling on the Quebec government to revise the rules for the Montreal Agglomeration Council, which oversees shared services such as policing, firefighting, water systems and public transit.
“We have no power at the agglomeration level,” said Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle, vice-president of the Association of Suburban Municipalities, in an exchange with journalists at Montreal city hall on Thursday, after the agglomerati