When you have such a big project of public infrastructure, you would think that the first thing you would do is call the public authority that manages and coordinates the infrastructure in Montreal and say, “Hey, how can we complement and improve and increase transit in the metropolitan area?” Instead of that, we've had a kind of competing transit project created. That's creating a lot of problems with the current public network that is there now.
Also, we've often said about P3s that they're on time, on budget, and things of that nature. I've lived in Montreal for 15 years, and there have been four, five or six major P3s in Montreal in that period. I can think about the McGill “super hospital”. There was tons of corruption. It was late, with millions of dollars in cost overruns. It was the same thing for the CHUM. It was the same thing for the Champlain Bridge. We're expecting the same thing for the REM.
We're always getting into these problems. Sometimes it almost feels like gaslighting to say that P3s are the way of making these things work well.