Shaken by his defeat in the Jean-Talon by-election, Prime Minister François Legault did not rule out Tuesday reopening the door to a third road link between the two shores in the Quebec region.
In front of journalists, the Prime Minister said that he “wanted to consult” the population without specifying how he would go about it. “The ball is in the citizens’ court.”
“It’s clear that this decision hurt us a lot,” he said of his government’s decision to abandon the highway portion of the project last April.
The Legault government reluctantly made this decision in the spring after spending years promising that the tunnel would be built at all costs.
“This project was necessary at one time, but the three-year pandemic has changed our lives so much that we have no choice, factually and empirically, to trust the figures we have today. today,” declared the Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault.
With 44% of the votes, the PQ received twice as many votes as the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) (21.46%) during Monday evening’s partial.
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