(Quebec) Contrary to what the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, keeps repeating, it is not a “vast majority” of the stakeholders consulted by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) as part of its analysis of mobility in Quebec who spoke of “economic security”.
In fact, only about 70 of the 172 stakeholders consulted (just over 40%) “raised concerns about the security of trade links, freight transport or the redundancy of existing bridges,” CDPQ confirmed to La Presse Canadienne on Wednesday.
Last Thursday, Ms. Guilbault said at a press conference with Prime Minister François Legault, then during a series of interviews, that a “vast majority” of stakeholders consulted by the CDPQ had spoken of “economic security.”
For a week now, the Legault government has been raising the argument of “economic security” to justify its decision to relaunch the third Quebec-Lévis motorway link.
“Many, many, many people, […] a large majority of these people expressed concern about redundancy, the possibility of having an alternative to the Pierre-Laporte bridge,” declared Geneviève Guilbault on the airwaves from Radio-Canada, last Thursday.
