Opinion: Public transit in Montreal should be free

Montreal is one of the most livable cities in the world, in part because of our safe and clean public transit system.
If there’s one policy that would go a long way to improving our quality of life, however, it would be to make all public transit free.
Fiscal conservatives will immediately balk at this suggestion (as they often do at Big Ideas): after all, the Société de transport de Montréal’s 2017 budget notes that $632 million was culled from transit fares. Ev