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Starting Sunday, Oliver Bleuer will give Montrealers the gift of time.

A chartered accountant and a consultant in workforce optimization, Bleuer is launching an app that will allow drivers to see if there is time already paid up on their parking meters that has not been used — if the driver that left also uses the app.

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Since the new credit-card enabled parking meters replaced the old coin-operated ones about a decade ago, Montrealers have complained about the fact that the city is double dipping: getting money from parking users who leave early, and from those who park before the previous parking time expires. In 2009, a citizens committee even tried to put political pressure on the mayor to change the parking policy to no avail.

But Bleuer says technology will now let people subvert the political process and could save hundreds of people money.

His new app, GetPrkd, will launch at 4:20 p.m. on Sunday.