3rd link: Legault urges Montrealers to “stop looking down” on Quebec and Lévis people

GATINEAU — Francois Legault attacked Montrealers opposed to his tunnel project after being caught on television by Bernard Drainville’s announcement about the third link, telling the people of Quebec and Lévis to “watch out.”

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“The people of Montreal should stop looking down on the people of Quebec and then the people of Lévis,” said Chief Cacquist, who, like other chiefs, gave a thirty-minute live interview on Radio-Canada Sunday evening.

Pressed by questions from the hosts about, among other things, his main promises, François Legault tried to qualify a controversial statement launched by his star candidate Bernard Drainville in Levis last Friday.

“Leave me with the GHGs,” snapped the former journalist during a press briefing on the promise from the CAQ on health.

“You have to put the ad in context. He was told: “How about the environment and the third link?”. This is where Bernard said: “Leave me with the GHGs”, explained Mr Legault.

But of course, before Mr. Drainville intervened, the question put to him that day was that the party in power intended to clarify its project with new information by October 3.

Data to be modified

On this subject, François Legault explained in Radio-Canada’s broadcasts that the data available to the government is “outdated” due to the new reality of teleworking, one of the consequences of the pandemic.

“Numbers should be updated. We can no longer come up with good numbers,” said Mr Legault.

But, regardless of what the studies say, “to me, there’s proof that we need a third link,” he said repeatedly, adding that building two bridges next to each other is a bad idea.

“There will be less congestion including public transport,” the CAQ leader opined.

“The question that remains: do we want to mutilate Île d’Orléans or do we want a tunnel?” Mr. Legault summed it up by opposing his project proposed by Eric Duhaime’s Conservative Party.

Anglade loves the tramway

In turn, the Liberal leader reiterated that she wants the Quebec tramway to cross to Lévis in the third phase of network development. According to studies, the infrastructure will end in a tunnel or a bridge, first Mr.^me Anglade during an evening of chefs on Radio-Canada.

However, at the end of the segment, the chef confirmed that studies would confirm the disuse of the third link to keep the tram there.

Could the studies result in nothing? “School dependent,” she replied. “But there might also be a way to ensure that transport goes to Levis.”

M^me Anglade assured that Quebec needs to reduce traffic, but that the plan is “based on science.”

– In collaboration with Nicholas Lachance, Parliamentary Office