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The line of the afternoon belonged to Mark Kaluski. “Why can’t Vanier have nice things too?”
The chair of the Quartier Vanier Business Improvement Area was supporting $2.9 million in property tax incentives to encourage the building of a new Porsche dealership at a key intersection, Montreal Road and St. Laurent Boulevard, essentially the area’s back porch.
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Before it was approved by a city hall committee Tuesday, the issue had been sidetracked, if not hijacked, by accusations the city was throwing public money at the uber rich, while the poor, steps away, were left in grinding desperation, living on fumes. And, now, $2.9 million going to money titans in castles on the Rhine?