Legalt emphasizes Tramway’s “better social acceptance”

Prime Minister Legault on Monday said the “best social acceptance” would be in the orders on the “single condition” tramway imposed on Quebec City, which will be approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday.

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On Monday afternoon, Franுவாois Legalt allowed the demand to move, while promising to vote in favor of the long-awaited decree by the municipality.

“Obviously, what we want should be better social acceptance. I think all the mayors since the mayor of Quebec must first support their plans by their citizens. So this is the only condition we set,” the Prime Minister dropped, while at the same time being careful not to define the concept of “social acceptance”.

A few minutes ago, Bruno Mercantile said he did not know if the orders contained conditions.

However, the mayor of Quebec, Rene-Lewesk, reiterated that the 500-meter shared street on the Boulevard was the “unspoken” element of the mega-project.

He said he would be better off looking at the government’s condition for issuing orders on securing federal funding in advance for the additional costs of the mega project.

Lively discussions

The question of the social acceptance of the tramway also occupied much of the debate in the City Hall on Monday evening.

Independent Councilor Stevens Melancon called for a referendum; Eric Ralph Mercier, president of Quebec 21, drew a line between the acceptance of the drum and the mayor’s narrow majority in the last election.

Stung, Bruno Mercant later accused him of “denying democracy” and “making a big mistake in making the election result illegal.”

Advertising video

Monday morning, Quebec City has released a new promotional video, Which gives pride of place to new images and three-dimensional (3D) simulations, which compliments the tramway. The mayor assured that this post has nothing to do with the current negotiations with the government.

Emphasizing the issue of climate change to protect the tramway, Mr. Merchant argued that “there is no new plan.” [autre que le tramway] Does not allow us to reduce our GHGs [gaz à effet de serre] Significantly by 2028 ”.

The Quebec mayor has promised that by 2028 the tramway will remove 10,000 cars from the road.

In his view, “that will not be the case in five years. The current situation is not acceptable even for those who do not take the tram. ”

Villanueva is okay

For his part, the Leader of the Opposition, Claude Villenov, Mr. Like March, he believes shared street should not be negotiable.

Allowing the government to interfere in the development of a city would, according to him, be “a precedent for which we do not want to know anything”.

– In collaboration with Patrick Bellerose, Stephanie Martin and Jean-Luc Lovely