Bruno Marchand believes it is too late to go back to the tram; According to him, the claims of Sam Hamad on his possible transport project for Quebec are “not realistic” and amount to taking his dreams for realities.
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Regarding the tramway, Mr. Marchand affirms that the project is underway and that his political team acts accordingly. “Someone who would say:” I refuse the tram “, it is too late. The tram, it advances. […] We will not go back. ”
The mayor of Quebec also reacted on Monday to his opponent’s claims at the town hall Sam Hamad, who promises to abandon the tram project and present his own “beautiful project”, not yet detailed. The latter claims that it will be “a project that includes the suburbs, which will be done quickly and that we will be able to manage, carry out and operate”.
For the merchant mayor, it is equivalent to saying: “I dream that summer in Quebec, he never rains. […] I think we could work very much to transfer the weather for the Canary Islands to Quebec, so that we have no rain in summer. ”
Never guaranteed funding
Bruno Marchand recalls that even when Mr. Hamad was in power in Quebec, as a liberal minister, infrastructure projects have always taken a long time to materialize and their funding has never been guaranteed.
“It is not realistic to think that a new project, in four years, can be both designed, thought, built, put engineering, being credible, discussing governments, obtaining funding and being gone. The whole recent history of the past few years testifies that it has not happened, ”hammered Mr. Marchand, in a press briefing on Monday.
For his part, Claude Villeneuve, head of the official municipal opposition, said on Monday afternoon that Mr. Hamad “had much to say” during his media outings last week.
-“Sam Hamad seems to seek a way to exist currently. Everyone would like to hear him on a lot of subjects. Then he doesn’t really position himself, “he deplored.
Bruno Marchand spoke out during a political event organized by his party, a strong and proud Quebec (QFF). The mayor and candidate for the town hall presented three new candidates for his political training.
He confirmed the information revealed by The newspaper A few weeks ago, the presence in its ranks of Raymond Poirier, who was until recently president of the Vieux-Limoilou district council. He will seek the votes in Limoilou.
Éric Courtemanche-Baril, former candidate for QFF in 2021, well-known businessman in Saint-Roch and resident of Beauport, presents himself in the district of Robert-Giffard, whom he lives.
And in Lac-Saint-Charles-Saint-Émile, Emma Amehoum will represent the party. Coming from the middle of nursing sciences, she is from Côte d’Ivoire, installed in her neighborhood for three years.
Third link
Called to comment on the recent outing of Jackie Smith, candidate for the town hall, who reproached Mr. Poirier his positions, according to her in the door with those of his party, the mayor indicated that all the candidates will be entitled to their position.
Mr. Poirier is notoriously opposed to the third link, while the mayor has never officially positioned himself.
“There is room so that someone is for the third link, for someone to be against the third link. We’re going to study that with science. […] Mr. Poirier has the right to keep his opinions. ”
– With the collaboration of Taïeb Moalla
