The third link is a “shadow project” that will probably never happen, Liberals believe.
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“I’m a bit tired of talking about a phantom project,” Mr Tanguay dropped on Wednesday, in response to the fact that the bill is not included in Girard’s budget presented on Tuesday. The minister responsible for the Capitale-Nationale, Jonatan Julien, justified this absence with the need not to disrupt calls for tender.
“The third link is garbage,” commented Marc Tanguay, visibly discouraged. We spend so much ink (…) on a bogus project that doesn’t exist in the budget, that doesn’t have a study, and during this time the government is doing nothing to solve the mobility problem in Quebec.”
When a journalist asked him if he thought the Quebec-Lévis tunnel project would bear fruit, the Liberal leader burst out laughing.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he cursed. I think even the main proponents of the third link have started to think it’s never going to happen.”
In fact, the lack of funds in the budget for the third connection is evidence that, according to Marc Tanguay, the project is being postponed indefinitely.
“The studies on the third link we will have at the same time as the budget for the first year of the PQ,” he joked, adding that it was time for Prime Minister Legault to “talk about something else”.
I’m not sure we’ll see that in our lifetime, says GND
For his part, Québec solidaire spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said that his “optimistic side” leads him to believe that “reality will catch up with CAQ”, which will abandon its “pharaonic” project for ecological and technical reasons. .
“I’m not sure we’ll see that in our lifetime, the third link,” he said.
But he immediately pointed out that his “pessimistic side” tells him the government is “so stubborn, so ideological and so detached from the climate crisis” that he is in danger of going ahead with his project despite the lack of funds earmarked for it in the budget .
As for PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, he said that “there is no apparent intention to go ahead with this project on the part of the government”.
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