Pressed with questions by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, François Legault carefully avoided setting a ceiling price for the Quebec-Lévis tunnel project.
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“I have a very, very simple question for the Premier of Quebec: I would like him to tell us what is the maximum amount he is willing to pay to build his third link,” the leader repeated in the chamber. parliamentarian from Québec solidaire, Wednesday morning.
Three times rather than once, the Prime Minister flatly refused to set a budget limit for the 3rd link project.
The day before, reacting to the results of the federal election, the CAQ leader said that his government will carry out its tunnel project with or without Ottawa money. Quebec is demanding 40% federal funding for a project whose costs should be between $ 6 billion and $ 10 billion. For now, Justin Trudeau has only shown openness for the public transport component of the project, without promising anything.
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“For the third link, he takes Quebecers for a credit card, reacted Mr. Nadeau-Dubois. Four billion more, it does not matter: it is the future generations who will pay the ecological and financial cost of his obsessions. ”
Rather than answer the question directly, François Legault took the opportunity to recall that last week, the new parliamentary leader of Quebec solidaire made little of the defense of Quebec’s fields of jurisdiction.
“If I listened to Quebec solidaire, we would close the place here,” said Mr. Legault.
“Mr. President, if there were Olympics of the diversion of subject, the Prime Minister would come to gain the gold medal”, replied the deputy in solidarity with Gouin.
The Caquist leader concluded the oratory game by accusing Quebec solidaire of denying the traffic problems between Quebec and Lévis. Mr. Legault has flayed the Liberals in passing, accusing them of having no position or proposal on this subject.
“When we know that the Premier of Quebec thinks that the Caquiste tunnel will be good for the environment, we understand that we are starting from afar when it comes to the environment,” later retorted Liberal MP Isabelle Melançon.
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