Passing through the Lac-Mégantic region to meet the mayoress of the place and the mayors of Nantes and Frontenac, the federal Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, did not want to specify how many people expropriated in the construction process of the bypass have not come to an agreement with the government. He believes that Ottawa negotiated “in good faith” with all affected owners.
The deadline for negotiations with the owners who will be expropriated was reached on Friday. Some of them had not agreed on compensation with the Government of Canada, which makes what follows rather opaque. In a press scrum just before his meeting with the mayor of Lac-Mégantic early Thursday afternoon, Mr. Alghabra could not specify the number of owners who had not reached an agreement with Ottawa.