Joël Lightbound says that the SRB project is like living back to the future

The federal government believes that it would be “complicated” to subsidize a mobility project to Quebec City other than the tram.

This is mentioned by the Minister of Public Services and the supply of Canada, Joël Lightbound, when he was questioned about the project of SRB From the candidate for Quebec City Hall Sam Hamad. He even claims that the project would be a return in time, as in the film Back to the Future. We wake up in 2013-2014 with the project SRBhe gives as an analogy.

The Minister was passing through Quebec to announce the training of an advisory group on the rehabilitation of the Quebec Pont, which will accompany the federal state company Les Ponts Jacques Cartier and Champlain Incorporated (PJCCI).

If there is a change of mobility project in Quebec, It would be extremely difficult to transfer federal money invested in the tram project to another proposal. It was passed to the Treasury Board; 1.44 billion [de dollars] For the tram project in Quebecinsists the minister.

A change of project could mean that it is a return to square one on funding.

This is the project that the Government of Quebec puts forward. This is the project that Quebec City is putting forward and this is the project that the federal government has supported since 2018. So money is there for the tramwayhe adds.

He insisted that the last federal campaign of candidates of the Liberal Party was made on the importance of a tram in Quebec. No one is surprised in Quebec to say that, for us, for the federal government, this tram project is essential.

A stake in the race for Quebec town hall

Called to react, the leadership leader Quebec, Sam Hamad, replied in writing that he is not surprised to hear the Lightbound Minister positioning himself in favor of a tram project. For the rest, it is up to citizens of Quebec, and not to the federal government, to decide on the project to which they adherehe says.

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With me as mayor of Quebec, there will be no tram. I will favor an alternative that improves mobility as much and which serves the whole city faster, for less and with less inconveniencepleads the candidate for the town hall.

The mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, was delighted with the exit of Minister Joël Lightbound.

In the current economic context, turn the check [fédéral] And to say we are going to have another lower from Quebec and Canada, when it is our taxes that go there, it is to take a great risk that it never happenshe mentions.