$1.3-billion to replace crumbling Montreal bridge, once-secret report says
July 14, 2011
The following is excerpted from the 13 July 2011 issue of The Globe and Mail.
A once-secret but now-public report that embarrassed Transport Minister Denis Lebel reveals that it would cost Canadian taxpayers at least $1.3-billion to replace Montreal’s crumbling Champlain Bridge.
The federal government released the report Wednesday, one day after Mr. Lebel told The Canadian Press that if its contents were “handled by people who are not exactly connoisseurs of the subject matter, that can create worries that I do not want to create.”...
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