Facing pushback from premiers, after stating the federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault tried to backtrack Wednesday, saying he “should have been more specific.”
“Of course we’re funding roads, we have programs to fund roads, but we have said, and maybe I should have been more specific in the past, is that we don’t have funds for large projects like the Troisième lien,” Guilbeault said, referencing the proposed third connection point between Quebec City and Lèvis, Que.
The federal minister faced a series of questions after the Montreal Gazette reported that Guilbeault said in a public transit conference in Montreal on Monday that the federal government had “made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure.” #shorts
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