Hi. I live alone in downtown Montreal. I pay 999 CAD a month for a 1-bedroom apartment, sublet. This includes furniture, electricity, heat, Internet.

I have friends who are renting a shared flat, works out to ~650 CAD / person, in a nice area (Plateau Mont Royal).

I'm not claiming two data points are representative of the whole distribution, and things are not great at all in terms of inflation / the housing market is tough, but there's no need to resort to gross exaggerations.