Drapeau prediction - by 2000 Montreal will have 7 million residents

    Montreal photograher Gaby, aka Gabriel Desmarais, published a book called Canada 2000 A.D. in 1969. He asked Canadian leaders - most of whom were based in Montreal - what the year 2000 holds.
   Jean Drapeau's contribution (he's pictured above alongside sidekick Lucien Saulnier) contained an optimism that soon after went extinct - thanks largely to the FLQ separatist terrorists who wrecked stuff up in October.

 Montreal already bears all the signs foreshadowing the future which scientific calculations established for this City, where no less than 7,000,000 citizens will live by year 2000.

Let's review those scientific calculations, Your Worship, I don't think we're even half of that today.

  Headquarters of numerous international organizations, cosmopolitan city, Canadian metropolis, important economic centre, Montreal will have established itself before the end of the Century as an authentic universal metropolis

.... Well, sorta. We've still got ICAO and a few bank headquarters and about 13 Dunkin Donuts...

A balanced network of buses, mass transit systems and roads will be extended by the construction of an additional 400 miles of expressways and by a more comprehensive metro system... which will eventually reach 100 miles...and be linked to a new mode of transportation, the regional express offering two main circuits, linking Ste. Adele to St. Hyacinthe and Rigaud to Joliette.

The metro expanded but it's still only 40 miles, meanwhile almost zero new highways were added since that promise.

Furthermore, the covered pedestrian walkways which already exist downtown will multiply and with all these enclosed areas, the population will continue to pursue various activities in the agreeable atmosphere of a perfectly controlled micro-climate.

   The underground city was finally extended under St. Catherine and eventually down to the convention center towards the southeast.
   He continues with a vague reference to promising more parks and housing and schools and finishes with this thought:

Only when intelligence does not guide its growth is a city the enemy of man.