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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/metro/public_html/app/controllers/app_controller.php:160) in /home/metro/public_html/app/controllers/app_controller.php on line 175 Taylor C. NoakesTaylor C. Noakeshttps://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/author/239engBombardier payment puts government priorities into questionhttps://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/view/1519https://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/view/1519
On Thursday April 2nd 2015 there was a large anti-austerity protest in Montreal. Several hundred kilometres to the northeast of the city, at the Bombardier plant in the small Kamouraskan town of La Pocatiere, Quebec’s economy minister, Jacques Daoust, declared that if the province were truly in a state of austerity it could not issue a $31.5 million advance payment for new Metro trains.Perhaps the students, teachers, nurses and diverse other public sector workers didn’t get the message, as apparently austerity had been overcome since the release of the budget on March 26th. Reported total budget cuts amounted to more than $700 million, with healthcare and education taking the hardest hit as anticipated.Taylor C. NoakesSun, 19 Apr 2015 14:30:00 -0400