Montreal is fine capital of Canada
Montreal is the fine capital of Canada. It collected $186 million in fines in 2011, an average of $111 from each of us.
Better watch out now that we know the city has a $700-million annual infrastructure shortfall it needs to meet. We’ll be ticketed for thinking about jaywalking.
Michel 09:55 on 2012/08/31 Permalink
Explains that $270 ticket I got earlier this summer for leaving the dog park without immediately leashing my dog.
Kevin 11:08 on 2012/08/31 Permalink
$270/dog? Man, the city could scoop up $10,000 a day just by hanging outside my backyard gate.
david m 01:08 on 2012/09/01 Permalink
insanity. two things: 1) if you have the time to show up to court, always contest your tickets, the cops almost never show up and then ticket is tossed; 2) vote out tremblay (i suggest project montreal) – whereas his incompetent management of the city is only sometimes dangerous, like if you fall into a pothole or have the windows of your business smashed because you refused the entreaties of the local mafia types, his laissez faire laissez aller attitude to the police department is actually menacing.
that said, i definitely agree with any ticket for people with cars (parking, speeding, turning, the standard vehicular manslaughter-inducing behaviors) or dogs. completely disagree with tickets for drinking booze in the streets or any sort of private noise violation though, obviously.