Maintenance of Roads, Aqueducts, Sewers and Municipal Buildings: Two Former Finance Ministers Invite Quebec to Stop "Infantilizing" Mayors
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The mayors are firmly waiting for the political parties on the eve of the Quebec election campaign: they will not hesitate to criticize those who will not have a concrete plan to renovate our infrastructure "in ruins". In a report, they propose to reduce construction costs and to put water meters forward.
To address the "gigantic" deficit in the maintenance of roads, aqueducts, sewers and municipal buildings, construction costs must be addressed.
Quebec's Minister of Infrastructure, Éric Girard, acknowledges that a change of course is necessary in the management of public infrastructure, while municipalities and several experts denounce a culture that is more focused on the construction of new projects than on the maintenance of existing assets. Without fully resuming the terms recently used by the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, which spoke of a "short-term culture", the minister says h…
Quebec's Minister of Infrastructure, Éric Girard, acknowledges that a change of course is necessary in the management of public infrastructure, while municipalities and several experts denounce a culture that is more focused on the construction of new projects than on the maintenance of existing assets. Without fully resuming the terms recently used by the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, which spoke of a "short-term culture", the minister says h…
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