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Will it be the Australian flag, the Quebec flag or a sleeping pill maker’s flag that will float on the new bridge of Autoroute 25?

The lease operator of the bridge is the same that operates the Chicago Skyway, the Indiana, Toll Road the 407ETR and is running up for Autoroute 30 on the south shore of Montreal. This bank puts to sleep the governments with lump sums of money in exchange of all the revenues from the tolls. Puts in non competition conditions in the leases to take out of our pockets as much as possible for the use of the roadway. Remember that a private company must pay dividends to the stock holders before pleasing the users.

I don’t usually hold these kinds of socialist comments. I am the first one aiming to make profits out of my small business, but to serve on a silver platter an infrastructure to a foreign entity, NO WAY!!!

We are not talking about the management of a building on a public ground it is a roadway we are talking about. When the construction will be over with, the local contractors paid, where will the profits go? There will be no income tax paid on the salaries of the toll collectors, they use electronic tolling. A picture of your plate is all that is needed. After they will ask the SAAQ to hold the renewal of your plates if you don’t pay the tolls like they did in Ontario. I’d like to remind you that the government of Ontario has tried in court to keep the tolls low on the 407 and never succeeded.

With all the involved Ministers, the Mayor of Laval and many of the elected officials of the area, we got served our first PPP roadway this Saturday morning. As a former citizen of Laval, I wanted that bridge and I had even signed the petition for it but, when I observe the way this company acts elsewhere, it leaves me with questions.

Jean Catudal