Draw Éric Ducharme to make a diversion in order to “crush” the latest embarrassing information on the third link …
A hypothesis, of course! But who came to the minds of several having read yesterday morning of the news of the dismissal of the CEO of the Saaq.
We do not know what motivated the Caquist government to act now. Shouldn’t he wait until the end of the Gallant Commission?
Maybe new information? Certain testimonies to the Gallant Commission certainly did not help the cause of Mr. Ducharme. Did we wait to find the rare pearl that could replace the CEO? Possible that there is a coincidence here having nothing to do with the “third nothing”.
9.3 billion!
The fact remains that it was convenient yesterday for the government, to crush the interesting news of Radio-Canada on Tuesday: according to a confidential preliminary assessment carried out by the ministry of Mme Guilbault-and signed by her-, the cost of a tunnel bridge in the two sectors identified by the government “is between 5.3 and 9.3 billion” of dollars.
The third link, in polls, still gets significant support, some 70%. But in an opinion survey of the early June sun, there was a considerable drop in support when the cost became prohibitive, approaching $ 10 billion.
Calamitous management
Obviously, in these matters, the Legault government has no credibility. Mme Guilbault may debit torrents of words to justify the last avatar of this project, all remember that she exercised her formidable competence in comm. To justify the exact opposite, building satchels in support, in April 2023.
The calamitous management by the CAQ of this thoughtless electoral promise will surely be the subject of study on what should not be done in public policy.
A project of this scale, in a geography of giant, criticized by all specialists, even by CDPQ Infra, was registered in the Quebec plan of infrastructure “at the planning stage, without the production of an opportunity file”, noted the SRC. For basely partisan reasons.
In the preliminary assessment unveiled, we also learned that the CAQ now rejects all other measures to reduce congestion in Quebec. No dynamic management of the tracks neither of river shuttles nor additional crossings. No, all of this does not frame “with the objectives of the current project”!
In other words, to make its ruinous project essential, the CAQ is ready to harm motorists! To lock them in congestion for a decade. It’s cynicism!
The alleged new justification is “economic security”, you will tell me. Again, no expert adheres to this argument. And if the CAQ really cared about “economic security”, it would havetened to properly repair existing bridges. No, she wants new, because her only objective is re -election, not the best solutions at the best cost. It will therefore engulf $ 275 million to continue to shive this mirage, when it was difficult to find $ 80 million to repair a hospital. It is to cry.
