Following the announcement of the Quebec government’s revised vision for the third coastal link, Lévis member and Minister in charge of Chaudière-Appalaches, Bernard Drainville, issued a sincere apology to his constituents.
“I want to apologize to the people of Lévis and Chaudière-Appalaches. I made a promise and am unable to fulfill it. I understand their disappointment, their anger and I’m really sorry,” the education minister said in the crowd before Question Time in the National Assembly on April 20.
Remember that during the last election campaign this fall, Bernard Drainville vehemently defended the construction of a third highway connecting Quebec and Lévis. In particular, he urged critics of the project to “put it down on the greenhouse gases.”
However, during the press throng, the Lévis member indicated that he had to join the arguments now being put forward by the government to which he belongs to explain their decision to proceed with only one tunnel, only for public use traffic is reserved.
“The traffic I saw last summer was real. I sincerely believed that the patient traffic we saw last summer was the new normal. And then, of course, after the work is completed (on the Pierre Laporte bridge), the new normal post-pandemic traffic is no longer what we had before and the studies show that. And so the data, which reflects reality, shows that a motorway connection is not justified,” he said.
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