The Plante administration finds itself faced with difficult choices, two or three months before the presentation of its next budget, the president of the executive committee of the City of Montreal confided Thursday.
Dominique Ollivier was speaking as part of the Tax Summit of the Union of Municipalities of Quebec (UMQ), where the province’s large cities are joining their voices to demand more funds from Quebec.
The current fiscal situation forces municipalities to make heartbreaking choices, underlined Mr.me Oliver.
“What are we going to have to cut? Because we can’t do everything,” she said. “We are in the process of finalizing our budgets now. We will have choices to make. We are going to make these choices as we have always made them, that is to say by looking at the ability to pay, by trying to maintain services as much as possible and by being consistent so as not to handicap the growth of our economy. »
Mme Ollivier did not want to indicate the expected impact of this difficult situation on Montrealers’ tax bills.
Reducing spending and increasing taxes, “we look at both,” she said. “All options are on the table, like every year, with the rigor that you know us to have. »
