Great town to visit either from out west or out east or from the south you get something to remember us by Other cities give warning to the tourists we nickle and dime them Lets give tickets to our tourists Applebaum the moron

Mr. Applebaum's reported comments are plain nonsense. Vancouver takes in 1/8th Montreal's ticket revenue and Toronto's total is 46 million less than Montreal's. If public safety issues were a primary concern, then Mr Applebaum must be spending a lot less time in his NDG bourough, now that he has his semi-moonlighting job as well-paid executive committee chairman in addition to his NDG mayor's post, where his office staff seem to me to run things in his absence.
On any given day - example Monkland Ave.- I count anywhere from 10 to several dozen U-turns but I have never seen anyone get a ticket for such an infraction....few too no-stopping violations except after many hours, and despite the presence of individuals ticketing cars for parking violations in paid parking stops, who may have exceeded their time limit or paid for the wrong numbered spot. But the vast majority of tickets go to those NDG'ers, who unfortunately seem to have slept in, or otherwise forgotten and been nabbed by ticketers in their street cleaning sweeps, now-deemed by Mr Applebaum to be safety-conscious actions.
These street cleaning hours have nothing to do with citizen safety. They have gone this year, from one to now two hours. The days and certainly the hours of such street cleaning do not correspond to the times that garbage or recycling pickups occur...so what public safety issues are involved someone should ask of Mr. Applebaum? Ask him to to sit in his paid to do an intelligent job in his Monkland Village kingdom..maybe if he ate a breakfast at one of the morning eateries to observe the BMW's, Porsche's,Lexus's and unlimited large SUV's etc (many of the drivers appear too old to do such manoeuvres in all safety and particularly on one or more one's and lacking at that point a morning coffee) do wild U-turns headed directly at pedestrians and block pedestrian & drivers' vision by using no-stopping zones to do errands, etc...a few weeks back witnessed a table of circa 7:00 a.m. breakfasters drinking beer in a popular eatery on Monkland with a
pleasant police officer present...all cheerfully conversing.......nobody was causing a disturbance, so the officer left......but I headed home to safety before they had a chance to drive off......
So I wonder what reporters ask Mr. Applebaum. We used to have investigative reporters.....
As CJAD moves to it's new abode, I hope the station maintains it's old tradition & get your reporters in addition to your hard-nosed commentator's to keep challenging the curious comments of our politicians