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The head of Montreal’s longest running car-sharing service has published a scathing open letter criticizing city council’s moves to regulate the system and make it all-electric by 2020.

The city’s new directives on parking, permit fees and restricting the city’s carsharing fleet to a limited number of electric vehicles, adopted by council last Tuesday, will limit development of car-sharing in the city, make it more expensive for firms and its users, and damage quality, wrote Benoît Robert, president of Communauto.

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“No offence to the head of transportation of the executive committee of the city, but Montreal was already an international car-sharing reference well before the current administration got involved and started acting as if they themselves invented the service,” Robert wrote. “The irony is, for more than 20 years we worked very hard at getting the city to get involved in car-sharing. And now, we kind of miss the good old days when they weren’t.”