We've never done it before, so we can't.

Government resistance to change.

Bureaucrats have no sense of style
The Gazette
Published: Monday, September 10

Planning to open one of their sleek superstores at 1321 Ste. Catherine St. W., Apple Inc. is investing heavily, as always, in design. It would be a nice touch, the company thought, to simplify the look of the shop by getting rid of the three parking meters out front.

So Apple made Ville-Marie borough an offer: "three meters, $3 an hour, so many hours a week, carry the 3 .... we'll give you about $35,000 to cover the lost revenue from those meters over five years. How about it?"

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But bureaucrats say no; that's what they do. "We've never done it before, so we can't."

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