There's an awful lot of 'for rent' signs all along St. Laurent blvd. from Sherbrooke all the way up to Little Italy.
There's no question heavy commercial tax burdens are wreaking havoc on this city.
To argue otherwise is foolish. Small business are strangled by red tape and taxes.
We used to frequent this pizzeria located in a once vibrant, uber-trendy part of town. Nothing said 'pizza' like 4am.
But hey, the same sort of folk who argue along anti-business lines explaining Detroit's decline make up all sorts of incoherent excuses for Montreal's marvelous mediocrity.
This city is in dire need of leadership and vision. Alas, there seems to be a dearth of quality people on the continent at the moment. Sheesh, I mean, look at the caliber or men running in New York City. Spitzer and Weiner are not exactly men of high character. As for Bloomberg, he's a maniacal interventionist busy-body.
Montreal needs a reinvigorating game plan to resuscitate an entrepreneurial spirit that's slowly being crushed under the weight of taxes and corruption. Somehow it will have to find a way to work around the restrictive and regressive language laws, loosen the grip of the unions and truly clean up its disgusting corruption.
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