Tram and 3rd link: Couillard promises to do “both”

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Liberal leader Philippe Couillard believes that the issue of mobility will be a very important issue during the election campaign in the National Capital.

Marc-André Gagnon

Tuesday, 30 January, 2018 21:11

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Despite his descent in the polls, Philippe Couillard has galvanized the liberal troops in the National Capital, on Tuesday evening, attacking almost exclusively to the CAQ, François Legault, who “are willing to say anything to get elected”, he denounced.

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On the other hand, the prime minister has asked its activists to help get a “second majority mandate” by promising, among other things, to achieve both the proposed 3rd link Québec-Lévis than that of public transport structuring of the mayor Labeaume, and this, even if the studies in the two cases, are not yet completed.

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“We are going to do the two,” repeated the prime minister in front of a few hundred activists gathered in a hotel in Quebec city.

“It is necessary to do both, there is not a single solution,” he added, accusing the CAQ to act as if there was a “false choice” between one and the other.

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All costs

Although the costs of these two projects remain to be clarified, Mr. Couillard ensures that the necessary amounts will be waiting for you.

“The 3rd link, it is committed to it. It was said that it was willing to do it. There are ongoing studies, but will not tell us if… Which will tell us how, where, how. “

“First, the public transit, it is sure that it is done”, he said, in a media scrum. At all costs, asked the author of these lines? “Well yes,-he said. It didn’t make sense, in a capital […] does not have a public transport system of the 21st century.”

“Public transport, it was already money, he assured. And for the other (the 3rd link), we are going to have the means. Why there would not be billions to Quebec, as there is for Montreal.”

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The CAQ, too risky

In addition to accusing François Legault of continually changing opinion on all issues, Mr. Couillard has put voters on guard against the danger that could represent a government of the CAQ, a possibility that the last poll Light casts.

“The CAQ, it is too risky for Quebec, we can’t afford this risk,” said the prime minister, in particular, in the context in which the renegotiation of the agreement the NAFTA threatens our economy.

“To make it to that, you need an experienced crew who is at the helm, and then it is the rest of us. We did not particularly need to do-it-yourselfers, enthusiasts,” said. Mr. Couillard.

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“We want people who know their business”, continued the liberal leader, saying that the CAQ is a party “without a rudder” “brew of the old ideas,” according to him.

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“The real change, it is in this room”, has launched the liberal leader, who considers himself already in electoral campaign, with the main opponent, the CAQ’s François Legault. “This is our main opponent,” admitted Mr. Couillard.