Mr. Speaker, last Monday I was greatly surprised to learn from La Presse that the Minister of Transport for the province of Quebec did not consider it necessary to have a monorail or LRT on the ice-control structure of the Champlain Bridge in my great riding of Verdun—Saint-Henri. He prefers buses instead.
Can hon. members imagine the pollution, the noise, the heavy traffic that this will mean for most of Nuns' Island, not to mention the loss of the bicycle path, which is used by 125,000 cyclists? Property values on the island may also be threatened.
What a mess and what an insulting gesture coming from Quebec ministers who boast of wanting Montreal to have a good modern public transit system.