The issues with the bridge did not come to light in 2006, but much earlier. The Liberal government was then in office, and some key ministers were from the Montreal region, but no one did anything.
Since we took office, we have invested $380 million to maintain the current bridge, and we are hard at work on building a new bridge. It is very important to us to respect the jurisdictions in this file. The province has jurisdiction over public transportation and is supposed to make decisions regarding the light rail.
I want to come back to the infrastructure envelope, which was discussed in the previous question. In the last envelope of the Building Canada Fund, your own province of Ontario decided to invest over 70% of the funding in public transportation, while that figure was 9% for Quebec. I am not questioning the choice made by your province, but you cannot have your cake and eat it too. If the province decides to build roads with that money, it will not implement any public transportation initiatives. Any future decisions on public transportation are the responsibility of the province of Quebec, which will be in charge of building the new train's corridor.
We are committed to building the tracks for the new light rail that the province chose. The new bridge will have the railway tracks the train needs. As for the actual train and the company that will build it, as well as the location of stations, the Government of Quebec is responsible for making the relevant decisions. So if the train is not delivered when the bridge is ready, that will have to do with the Government of Quebec, and not the federal government.