{"id":1001,"date":"2014-05-21T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/21\/laval-plans-bold-bid-to-save-mirabe\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:07","slug":"laval-plans-bold-bid-to-save-mirabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/21\/laval-plans-bold-bid-to-save-mirabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval plans bold bid to save Mirabel"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Laval intends to ask Quebec to complete Highway 13 all the way to Mirabel Airport, which it wants the federal government to keep alive, David de Cotis told The Suburban.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on a memorandum that will ask the Montreal Metropolitan Community to support fast-tracking the project,\u201d the vice-chairman of Laval\u2019s executive committee said in an interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt will reduce congestion on Highway 15 and encourage other companies to come to Laval, because it will be the perfect place to import to and export from by air freight,\u201d de Cotis enthused. \u201cThe land there was already expropriated a long time ago. Why not take advantage of that?\u201d<\/p>\n

When the federal government decided to build Mirabel in 1970, air traffic was growing rapidly, year after year. No one foresaw that a Middle East oil embargo, two years later, would send jet fuel prices through the stratosphere, dramatically raising the cost of air travel and putting paid to the feds projections. <\/p>\n

Then, in 1976, Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque\u2019s first Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> government halted construction on Highway 13. Initially intended to spark a spat with Ottawa, successive Quebec governments have failed to complete the highway beyond where the North Shore meets Laval. A planned high-speed rail line that was to link Montreal to Mirabel also came to naught. <\/p>\n

De Cotis disclosed the plan in the wake of a steady stream of criticism from political opponents over the city\u2019s handling of Laval\u2019s economy. <\/p>\n

Last week, defeated mayoral candidate Jean-Claude Gob\u00e9 sent a letter to the Laval chamber of commerce calling for an investment and development summit. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to gather key Laval stakeholders to stimulate development,\u201d opposition spokesman Jean Desautels told The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cLaval is experiencing an economic crisis, and we need to come up with new ideas about how to stimulate the economy [here].\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pending provincial budget should have an impact on Laval, and Laval should be active in asking for more credit toward development, but we will have to wait for [newly appointed Finance Minister] Carlos Leit\u00e3o to table his budget to find out,\u201d Desautels said in an interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cGob\u00e9\u2019s accusations are absolutely false,\u201d countered de Cotis. \u201cMouvement Desjardins ceo Monique Leroux recently told the chamber of commerce that her economists predict that Laval will lead Quebec in economic growth.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very encouraged that right after we took power, Standard & Poors increased Laval\u2019s credit rating,\u201d he added. \u201cIn 2014, we\u2019re looking at starting to build Place Bell. The Grande biblioth\u00e8que<\/i> project is in the design phase. We\u2019re proposing building a trade centre in Laval unlike anything that currently exists in Quebec, and sometime during the next few weeks, we expect to announce a new, $100 million investment here.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were elected, we inherited something that we\u2019re trying to change,\u201d concluded an upbeat de Cotis. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take time, but we\u2019re moving much more rapidly than anyone could have anticipated. We\u2019re very positive and anticipate that 2014 will be a great year for Laval\u2014and that that will be just the tip of the iceberg for us.\u201d <\/p>\n

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