Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said that in cities like Montreal, where such a service already exists, a Québec solidaire government would help fund it.
As he announced a $50-million commitment to fund a car-sharing program across the province if his party wins the Oct. 3 election, Québec solidaire premier hopeful Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois also welcomed news that his party has nudged ahead of the Parti Québécois and the Liberals to second place in a recent poll.
“We are announcing today another project in our transportation revolution: Québec solidaire will create a $50-million fund for municipalities to create or finance car-sharing services on their territories,” said Nadeau-Dubois at a campaign stop in Jean-Talon riding in Quebec City Tuesday. “Each municipality can develop its car-sharing service according to its particularities and its needs. Thanks to this investment, we will stimulate the creation of car-sharing services everywhere in Quebec.”
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Nadeau-Dubois said the number of vehicles circulating in Quebec has more than doubled in the last three decades (between 1988 and 2021) while the number of Quebecers of driving age has only gone up 33 per cent.
“This can’t go on; to slow the increase in cars, one of the solutions is car sharing,” Nadeau-Dubois said in a statement Tuesday morning. “We have to allow people to get from Point A to Point B leaving their cars at home. Car sharing is practical, affordable and ecological. It is a choice that we have to give in all our regions.”
Montreal has had a car-sharing service, Communauto, for more than 25 years. In 2019, the Quebec government bought a 25-per-cent share in that service to help it grow and expand to other cities across North America.
Nadeau-Dubois said that in cities like Montreal, where such a service already exists, a QS government would help fund it.
mlalonde@postmedia.com
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