Montreal has a public housing initiative, but so does Toronto. The public transit networks are municipal, so maybe those? We've also got a good library system...

Those damn commies and their public transit (that you have to pay for) ;)

The library system in montreal (+BANQ) is one of the things i missed most when i left. It really was amazing.

culturally, the income taxes, the intra-provice tuition, low competitiveness in publicly-funded domains e.g. city construction, subsidies etc.

I've lived there. Any canadian who has lived in all the big cities (toronto, vancouver, montreal, calgary) will tell you the same.

So in other words, things that have nothing to do with the city of montreal, but are the domain of either the provincial or federal government (other than construction which i'll give you is not great... but not sure how you link it to socialism.)

> I've lived there.

So have I