(Quebec) The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, returned to the charge on Tuesday to demand the unveiling of studies on the third link between Quebec and Lévis. His opponent François Legault had claimed that there was none for his downtown to downtown tunnel project. However, a study would have been delivered to the Prime Minister’s Office a year ago, according to Radio-Canada.
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“Mr. Legault lied, denounced Éric Duhaime. He has lied to millions of Quebecers on several occasions, notably during the last two debates and especially during our exchange in Everybody talks about it Sunday night. »
The leader of the Coalition avenir Québec admitted about two weeks ago that there was no study for his proposed four-lane tunnel from downtown the national capital to downtown Lévis. This new version of his project was presented in mid-April. His bill would amount to 6.5 billion.
However, Radio-Canada revealed on Tuesday that the Groupe Mobilité Inter-rives consortium would have provided data on the first two-storey, six-lane megatunnel project to the Quebec Ministry of Transport and the Prime Minister’s Office in May 2021. The Press had revealed in mid-September that the MTQ had granted at least seven contracts for external studies, the cost of which amounts to 28 million, in the file of the third link.
“Mr. Legault has studies in hand, repeated the Conservative leader. Today, he must deliver them, he must show them to the population. We will vote in six days. »
Éric Duhaime has been calling for the unveiling of studies on the third link for weeks before the October 3 election. He believes they would rather support his bridge project with a highway that would cross Île d’Orléans.
Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois added his voice to that of his Conservative opponent on Tuesday. “Enough of the secret third link, he wrote on Twitter. The people of Quebec and elsewhere have the right to know the facts. »
Solidarity opposes the third link to the east in the form of a bridge or tunnel. Instead, they advocate a fast bus service that would go over the Quebec Bridge between downtown Lévis and the west of the capital.