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The merger delusion how swallowing its suburbs made an even bigger mess of Montreal / Peter Trent.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773587557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JS1761 .M474 2012
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Contents:
The story. Political eunuchs and fiscal footmen (1663-1993); Metropolitan Montreal : suffocated by structurs (1994-1995); Merger plans, the MUC, and a metropolitan miscarriage (1996); A Quebec divided : partition and downloading (1997); The seduction of simplicity : turn the MUC into a city (1998); Montreal's disease : suburban parasites or chronic maladministraton? (1999); Quebec's remedy : a huge new government or a huge new city (1999); Walking into a trap (2000); Hope and betrayal : Bernard proposes, Bouchard disposes (2000); If you can't ride two horses, you shouldn't be in the circus (2001); Forced to play the language card (2001); A fight to the finish (2001); The Poitras Report and a liberal victory (2002-2003); A megacity legitimized by the indfferenct and the absent (2003-2004); Rebirth for some, complexity for all (2004-2009); Scandals, a swollen payroll, and an uncelebrated tenth birthday (2009-2011); Conclusion : making good : rebuilding Montreal's local and regional government.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Synopsis : the cult of giantism; Language : Quebec's necessary obsession; Westmount then and now -- The story. Political eunuchs and fiscal footmen (1663-1993); Metropolitan Montreal : suffocated by structurs (1994-1995); Merger plans, the MUC, and a metropolitan miscarriage (1996); A Quebec divided : partition and downloading (1997); The seduction of simplicity : turn the MUC into a city (1998); Montreal's disease : suburban parasites or chronic maladministraton? (1999); Quebec's remedy : a huge new government or a huge new city (1999); Walking into a trap (2000); Hope and betrayal : Bernard proposes, Bouchard disposes (2000); If you can't ride two horses, you shouldn't be in the circus (2001); Forced to play the language card (2001); A fight to the finish (2001); The Poitras Report and a liberal victory (2002-2003); A megacity legitimized by the indfferenct and the absent (2003-2004); Rebirth for some, complexity for all (2004-2009); Scandals, a swollen payroll, and an uncelebrated tenth birthday (2009-2011); Conclusion : making good : rebuilding Montreal's local and regional government.

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