(Quebec) Contrary to what Bernard Drainville declared last week, it is not “given” that the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) will present a project for a third link in Quebec at the end of its analysis.
This is what Mr. Drainville’s colleague, the minister responsible for the National Capital, Jonatan Julien, said on Wednesday, on the sidelines of an announcement relating to the development of the banks east of Quebec.
Mr. Julien therefore contradicts Mr. Drainville, who affirmed on March 25 in front of business people from Lévis that it is “a given” that CDPQ Infra will present a project for a third Quebec-Lévis link, since “that’s it , their mandate.”
“No,” Mr. Julien replied on Wednesday. Its mandate is clear, the sentence is so clear. From memory, it’s mobility and inter-river mobility. So let’s not assume conclusions. Let the Fund work,” he said.
Last fall, the day after its electoral defeat in Jean-Talon, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) said it was considering reviving the project for a third Quebec-Lévis highway link that it had itself buried.
The CAQ then mandated the CDPQ Infra to evaluate ways to “improve mobility and fluidity in the Metropolitan Community of Quebec, particularly between the two shores”.