In fact, there are untold millions of cents worth of infrastructure projects coming your way. So bring home the filet mignon and a case of Veuve Cliquot as if it's your last meal, 'cause the way these dollars are earmarked, it may well be. Just click your way through to Montreal on this map to be dazzled by the overwhelming onslaught of six-or-so Montreal projects (compare that to Calgary, below), which are going to be flooded with a deluge of infrastructure pennies!
The blue-and-black dots basically represent, oh boy!, wee upgrades at federal buildings. (Don't they do that anyway? - Chimps) The white-and-blue shovels represent "groups" of activities that are basically the same thing -- with de la frick for Festival du Rire cronies and stuff like that.Are you speechless yet? Check out some of "Karate Chop" Steve's incredible gold rush of opportunities in this pre-election advertising -- I mean, public-service announcement:
So who stands to gain? Read on! This list of inspiring and imaginative projects will get a handful of able-bodied, skilled and ready-to-work Montrealers back on their feet again (Everybody else will be on their feet to walk to the welfare office. - Chimples) -- all thanks to Infrastructure Spare Change:Project: Government of Canada Building - Saint Laurent
Initiative: Investing in Federal Buildings
Federal Funding: less than $100K
Description: The project includes: replacing the heating system; and undertaking a fire prevention...
Project: Guy-Favreau Complex (Basilaire)
Initiative: Investing in Federal Buildings
Federal Funding: between $100K and $1M
Description: Program of work includes: traveling cranes, boiler room and generator room to be made compliant; escalators (8) - upgrade in...
Project: Léonce Lessard Building
Initiative: Investing in Federal Buildings
Federal Funding: between $100K and $1M
Description: This project includes the insulation of pipes, replacing aging piping, the repair of stone windowsills and the upgrade of the...
Project: Government of Canada Building - Montreal
Federal Funding: between $100K and $1M
Description: The project includes: installing anchors and balustrades on the roof (2nd floor), light wells to be installed; holding tank for...
Project: Jeanne Sauvé Building
Initiative: Investing in Federal Buildings
Federal Funding: between $100K and $1M
Description: Program of work includes: Glass, flashing and roof weatherstripping; architectural finishes; ventilation, cleaning and balancing of air...
Project: Normand-McLaren Building
Initiative: Investing in Federal Buildings
Federal Funding: between $100K and $1M
Description: This project of work includes the creation of an access gangway as well as roof and window...
(N.B., Hey, did you notice, they Frenchified Norman McLaren's name?)
Project: Just For Laughs
Federal Funding: between $1M and $5M
Description: Just For Laughs is one of Canada's annual, world-class marquee tourism events that has been granted funding under the Summer...
Not so fast you say? Let's make a comparison between Montreal (metropolitan population 3,635,571) and a city less than half its size. Say, Calgary (population 1,162,100): The western, more Tory city comes out swinging with not only more infrastructure projects by far than the Island of Montreal per capita, but more projects in absolute terms:
What happened to all those promises? I.e., Helping the Unemployed, Creating the Economy of Tomorrow, Supporting Resource-Based Industries, Support for Home Ownership and the Housing Industry, ad nauseum.
Montreal is getting what it deserves for electing weak-kneed pansy-waists to Parliament, like that 4-eyed mute, Francis Scarpaleggia, who, even if the Liberals had won, would have been so far in the backbenches that he would have had to call in his vote from Gatineau. Over the years, Montrealers COULD have voted in Andrea Paine in Lac-St-Louis instead of Scarpaleggia, or Neil Drabkin in Dollard instead of Bernard Patry (another silent ghost between elections)...but, NOOOOO....you get what you elect, and Montreal chose on the wrong side, so, as usual, time to cry and stamp our feet "c'est la faute du federal!"
ReplyDeleteMeh! Did you* really expect the cons-
ReplyDeleteervatives to be any different from Maurice Duplessis???
* That’s a collective “you”…
"...The Union Nationale was originally a coalition of the Conservative Party and the ACTION LIBÉRALE NATIONALE, formed to contest the 1935 provincial election in Québec."
ReplyDeleteYeah, basically, all Tory, all the way.
Citation.