Prime Minister François Legault is a veteran of politics. We would be naive to think that his promise of the third link was not a strategy to woo the vote of voters in the Quebec region. And it would be equally naive to believe that the recommendation to vote for the Conservative Party in the last federal election was not unrelated to the hope of financial participation in the project if Erin O’Toole had taken power.
M. Legault has the defect of his qualities. Calling himself the “effective left”, he wants to be a man of action and who knows how to keep his word. However, there is a huge difference between keeping our word and stubbornly defending a promise formulated at the outset without a solid foundation and which, moreover, for the moment defies science as much as common sense.
At the last CAQ congress, we saw a glimmer of hope when activists dared to openly express their opposition to the project. And it is especially not the lack of class of Geneviève Guilbault towards Régis Labeaume and the tactics of deflecting the debate on the presumed bitterness of the former mayor which are carriers of an enlightened consensus on the question.
The third link will be financed from the taxes of ALL Quebecers and, as such, we are entitled to demand that Mr. Legault prove the relevance of the project and that he justify its disproportionate cost based on the benefits. expected and its impact on the environment. Because if we put forward a cost forecast of 10 billion dollars, we know full well that this is a minimum threshold, which we will soon have to propel upwards.
Even if the CAQ is in a good position to retain power in the next elections, let us hope that the opposition parties follow the CAQ on this “hot potato” which concerns us all, no offense to the supporters of the project …
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