Montreal named 2018's top budget travel destination

The brain trust at Forbes has declared the “year of the island” will soon be upon us and Montreal will be the top budget travel destination for 2018.
Sure, the island comment was made in reference to “islas in Panama to cheap archipelagos in the South Pacific,” but Montreal is an island and also No. 1. 
Montreal appears to have made the list curated by a panel of “experts” because of its favourable exchange rate for Americans and “strong French infl