Montreal is affordable, but I don't think you can attribute that entirely to rent control. Forty years ago it was the premier city in Canada, but it's had a ser

Montreal is affordable, but I don't think you can attribute that entirely to rent control. Forty years ago it was the premier city in Canada, but it's had a serious decline since then. Perhaps not an absolute decline in population, but certainly slower growth than the rest of the country, and way less money than it used to have.