The hearings, which hit Longueuil and Montreal this week, are organized by the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal ... It favours a system similar to that of France, where companies pay a levy to fund transit based on the size of their payrolls.

All told, the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal ... (Transit-challenged Toronto is considering its own version of a region-wide sales tax hike.) Paris, France, and Portland, Oregon, meanwhile, rely on payroll taxes to fund transit.