“The rules are bad. They lump us in with Montreal. Our real rate here is different. Everyone here hates this rule. I want to carve out our area as its own exception.”
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“The government should not use the same rules everywhere. Montreal and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu are not the same. Montreal people will not spend over two hours to come work here. But we need these workers for projects the government says it wants. The rules are dumb. The minister should change them.”