Montreal budget: Suburban mayors call for changes to agglomeration rules

Angered by an unexpected increase in Montreal’s budget for 2018, suburban mayors 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.
“This is an inflationary budget,” Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle, vice-president of the Association of Suburban Municipalities, said Thursday after the agglomeration council approved a budget incre