By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 2015
The federal government’s billion-dollar contribution to Ottawa’s light-rail
plans has nothing to do with the fall election, but the local Conservatives want
you to know it’s happening only because of Stephen Harper’s strength and
leadership. That was the theme of an announcement Monday morning at the Bayview
O-Train station, where MPs Pierre Poilievre and Royal Galipeau joined a handful
of city councillors to say what we’ve known since Galipeau sent the city a
letter last week: the feds are in for a third of the city’s $3-billion plan to
extend the first phase of rail with lines east, west and south starting in 2018.
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