Montreal tea party? Some politicians think there is a bottomless pit when it comes to extracting funds from the public

"Rotrand then used the green argument suggesting that the rates will encourage use of mass transit and help the environment. Yet he should well know that the leading study done in this field was authored by Wendell Cox, former Chair of Policy and Planning for the American Mass Transit Association, and presented in Montreal last summer by the Montreal Economic Institute and demonstrated that no city has been able to reduce car use by more than 2% through any combination of rate hikes or mass transit growth"