It's a debate that has been going on for years and even caused some change in one theatres policies, but still it rages on.
A West Island mother said a simple trip to the movies with her children was soured by an unexpected admission fee.
Andrea Riti took her 8-year-old and 6-month-old daughters to the movies recently at Cinema Guzzo on Sources Boulevard.
"I asked for a general admission for myself and my eldest daughter and he pointed to the stroller and said 'she has to pay too,'" Riti explained to CTV Montreal.
The fact she had to pay for her youngest daughter didn't make sense to Riti.
"She can fly for free on an airplane, she can gain free admittance to Disney theme parks but she's got to pay to see a Disney movie?"
The owner of Guzzo Sources, Vince Guzzo, said the charge is more of a deterent designed to make parents of very young children think twice about bringing them to a theatre.
"We had to think hard and say look, what do we do?" Guzzo said. "Do we try and respect point zero one per cent of our business - the under three years old - or do we respect the other 99 per cent of people?"
Guzzo said in the past he has received many complaints - as many as 10 to 15 per month - from customers who said their movie experience was ruined by a crying child. The complaints ultimately made the theatre chain enforce the admission fee for children under three, who had previously been free.
"I need to make people feel that they can go to the movies, pay $12, and at least have a half-decent chance of having to watch a movie without something happening" he said.
In 2016, a similar story prompted Guzzo to admit children under the age of two to 10:30 A.M. screenings for free.
The debate was reignited last November when a North Shore woman complained about her 2-month-old child being charged to enter the theatre.
"If every child that started crying had a parent that was responsible enough to get up and take his child out of the auditorium, we wouldn't have this issue. The problem is the parents have a sense of entitlement in certain cases" Guzzo said at the time.