Whereas:
- The Ministère des transports duQuébec (MTQ) is currently preparing to rebuild the Turcot interchange and the adjacent expressways, with work planned to start in summer 2009;

-Transportation is the largest source of green house gas emissions in Québec (accounting for 49% of emissions in Montréal);

-According to the Direction de la santé publique de Montréal, more than1,500 deaths in the city each year are connected to atmospheric pollution;

-The current plan calls for the demolition of more than 200 residences in the borough of Le Sud- Ouest, throwing that many households into an already oversaturated housing market;

-The current planned use of embankments will create physical barriers between the neighborhoods of Le Sud-Ouest, thereby worsening the physical fragmentation and isolation of these neighborhoods;

We, the undersigned, call on the National Assembly to seize the opportunity presented by the reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange by requiring the MTQ to submit a new project that includes:

- a specific plan to reduce automobile traffic through an increased supply of alternative transportation, thereby reducing green house gas emissions and local pollution and increasing the quality of life and health of the population;

-specific measures that will maintain the current number of affordable housing units, that will address public security concerns and that will reduce the physical barriers that already fragment and isolate the communities within the borough of Le Sud-Ouest.

-compensation for the citizens who will suffer the ill effects of the construction work.