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Quebec City wants to build a tramway with funding help from the federal government, but Ottawa is dictating the terms in a way that doesn’t work for Quebec, says Bloc MP Louis Plamondon. Photograph courtesy of Andrzej Otrebski

Opinion

BY BLOC QUéBéCOIS MP LOUIS PLAMONDON

April 10, 2019

It’s tax season. Suppose the Canada Revenue Agency owed you $2,000 but instead of giving you the money, it offered you 20 gift certificates that it chose without consulting you: $50 for chicken, $80 for books, $100 in bus tickets, and so on. Don’t need chicken? Too bad! The gift certificates are...

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