(Quebec) The controversial highway tunnel project between Quebec and Lévis has still not been quantified in Finance Minister Eric Girard’s latest budget. The opposition parties are asking François Legault to turn the page, because they are “tanned” to comment on a “phantom project”.
“Do you really want to know my thoughts, there?” I’m a bit tired of talking about a ghost project. The third link is rubbish,” lamented the interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party Marc Tanguay at a press briefing on Wednesday.
“We spend so much time, energy, saliva, ink, radio time, TV time on a phantom project that doesn’t even exist in the budget, for which there is not even a study and which is not justified”, he dropped.
Meanwhile, what is the government doing to respond “to the issue of mobility in Quebec? asks Mr. Tanguay. ” Nothing. […] So, listen, I’m tired of talking about the third link, me, I’m tired of talking, there, about a ghost, ”he cursed.
“I will quote you the Minister of the Environment [Benoit Charette] : it is not tied up. I don’t think it’s getting done, the third link,” he said. He believes that even the “main third link proponents” have begun to say that “it will never happen”.
“ Spin » media
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
The parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, believes, in an “optimistic” way, that the Coalition avenir Québec will be overtaken by reality, “the environmental reality and the technical reality of a pharaonic project like this “.
“I’m not sure we’ll see that in our lifetime, this famous third link which, moreover, at the start, there, was a simple spin media-political, then which became an electoral obsession of the CAQ, ”he said.
His “pessimistic half” thinks that the Legault government is “so stubborn and so ideological” that he could however stay the course.
Political gesture
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
For his part, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon mocked the elected Caquists and “congratulates the government for not having quantified the third link again. “.
“It’s a joke, but it’s not, because it’s a political gesture. Obviously, there is no intention. When one is not even able to project in time, in [Plan québécois des infrastructures], a project too… which has done as much… which has taken up as much media space as this one, is that we have no intention of proceeding, which we have predicted on several occasions, huh ? So I encourage them to continue not budgeting for it,” he said.