Political analyst Philippe-Vincent Foisy wonders how Quebecers can still believe the Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, who assures that the third link will see the light of day, after all the adventures of recent years.
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The minister launched an international call for proposals last week and mentioned “[qu’on] cannot subordinate the rigor necessary in this type of project to electoral considerations.”
Mr. Foisy finds it hard to believe the minister given the place this issue occupied during the last provincial election in Quebec.
“There, I say to myself, how can we say that seriously, after everything that has been done by the CAQ in the third link? he asks himself, during an intervention on the show Hi Hello. We just talked about the third link during the last election campaign. They promised us that they were going to do it, regardless of the studies.”
“Then, they didn’t do it, and now they’re going to tell us that it’s going to be done,” he continues. I don’t understand how in Quebec we can be confident in this government that this will happen.”
Many questions remain about the feasibility of the project, according to him.
“It could cost $15 billion,” he said. The ground is bad. The ground is very deep. If we want cruise ships to pass, it’s 60 meters high or 70 meters, maybe. And there is the whole question, it seems, that no one addresses: where will he leave, then where will he arrive?
“Because if it happens in Lévis, there, it will have to pass over houses,” he added. Then the decks will be very high because of the height of the bridge. It’s going to be a major technical challenge.”
A good shot of QS
During his intervention at Hi Hello, the political analyst also wanted to highlight a good move by Québec solidaire with regard to transportation.
“Rarely, we give out tights in the Québec solidaire notebook,” he mentions. There, we’re going to give one.”
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois’ party proposed this week the idea of taking the money allocated to the electrification of the bus network to finance the maintenance of metro infrastructure.
“Take this money that the transport companies don’t have and that the government spends on something that no one wants, and that for GHGs, it won’t change much, and put it into renovation and maintenance of assets,” explains Philippe Vincent-Foisy.
“Let’s have a network that stands before having something new,” he adds. This, for once, Québec solidaire shows its new pragmatism. And that must be emphasized when it happens.”
See Philippe-Vincent Foisy’s full comment in the video above
