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It's a bit of a circular argument anyway if you fail to build transit and then the excuse given is that a city is too car-oriented. The question is how car-oriented it would be with the transit.

I think the categorization of Quebec City as large vs. small is arbitrary and our notion of small keeps expanding as other cities grow, but doesn't actually correspond to less ability to build transit. The capacity difference between 1970's Edmonton and 2020's Quebec City for transit comes down to politics and efficiency, not fundamental material/economic constraints.