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| Pauline Tantost and Xavier |
A Montreal area woman has been given a $219 fine because she was unable to pay the fare for herself and her 2-year-old son with exact change. Pauline Tantost, 24, had been at Montreal Children’s Hospital with the toddler, who was suffering an infection. It was 10 p.m. She offered the bus driver a $5 bill for the $3 fare but he refused it. Ms Tantost sat down on the bus but within a few minutes two inspectors from the transit company, Société de transport de Montreal (STM) boarded the bus and in what other passengers call a targeting of the young mother gave her a ticket for $219. Montreal media were pointing out this weekend that more than a week after the incident the STM had not interviewed the bus driver involved in the matter. Now they have promised to look into the case.
