We had another meeting last Friday. Since the beginning of the new bridge on the St. Lawrence project, 60 meetings have been held between Transport Canada and Government of Quebec representatives. Another 50 meeting have been held with municipal representatives and 50 meetings with various partners.
In your second question, you say that this is a first contract, but ARUP was hired to respond to a contract that had already been awarded to Buckland & Taylor. Your statement contains many wrong elements. It is totally wrong to say that this is a first contract, since $380 billion has been invested. So contracts had to be awarded at some point.
We want to shorten the timeframes. The Buckland & Taylor report includes certain requests. Additional amounts of $400 million to $500 million will have to be invested to maintain the current bridge until the new bridge is ready. I hope that you will vote in favour of this measure, this time. A number of contracts have been awarded, and ARUP was hired because the firm was already involved in the file, as it was a stakeholder in the business plan following its engagement with PricewaterhouseCoopers.