Fresh out of the controversy at the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ), MP Éric Caire is again under pressure because of his past statements on the third link.
“Eric Cairo…please…The door is there!” “, could we read Tuesday evening on the Facebook page of one of the programs of Radio X in Quebec.
In the aftermath of the abandonment of the highway portion of the Quebec-Lévis tunnel project, pressure mounts on the member for La Peltrie.
Ardent defender of a highway tunnel between Lévis and Quebec, he promised in 2018 that he would resign if the CAQ backed down on the file. In 2022, he had given it up, declaring that he was going to fight “to the blood” for the project to be carried out, regardless of studies and criticism.
Solicited on Wednesday, the principal concerned declined to comment, referring the media to the presentation to be made Thursday by his colleague at Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, on the update of the project.
Pressed with questions at the Blue Salon, the latter declared that “it would be blindness and scientific denial to pretend that the pandemic has not had an impact on people’s daily lives. »
Ms. Guilbault also reaffirmed her intention to “move forward” with the portion of the project dedicated to public transit, speaking of a “promising” project.
Call for “his own resignation”
The oppositions did not demand the resignation of Éric Caire, but suggested that he himself had sealed his fate. ” The ball is in his court. It is not me who calls the resignation of Éric Caire. It was Éric Caire who himself called for his own resignation,” declared the interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ), Marc Tanguay.
“I can’t wait to hear Éric Caire,” said Québec solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. “That party, the CAQ, was ideologically stubborn in defending a project that was based on nothing, neither common sense nor science. »
The Parti Québécois, for its part, argued that Éric Caire should be held accountable. MP Pascal Bérubé pointed out that voters in his riding could have “sanctioned” him during the last campaign because the work had not started. “I think he has to address them, it’s the least we can do. »
Further details will follow.