Xavier Barsalou-Duval at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On February 25th, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2021 / 3:55 p.m.

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Xavier Barsalou-Duval Bloc Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, QC

I understand. Thank you very much for your answer. However, earlier, in response to Ms. Jaczek's comments, you said that this could not lead to the privatization of infrastructure. What I see is that it could.

In 2017, the government, of which you were a member, had initially announced $1.68 billion in grants for the REM. Now you're looking for projects to justify the existence of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. So you have converted the $1.68 billion in grants into loans.

Do you think that Quebeckers are actually benefiting more from that?

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