THE CANADIAN PRESS -- MONTREAL - Canada's new transport minister was forced to perform an abrupt about-face Wednesday after declaring that he did not want to release a structural report on a major Montreal bridge because people might worry.The remarks by Denis Lebel were, of course, noticed in Montreal where 60 million vehicles cross the Champlain Bridge annually and make it one of the country's busiest spans.
His remarks became a top news story in Quebec. The bridge has been a source of public concern since the release this spring of another report that warned it's at risk of collapse.
With 24 hours the Prime Minister's Office made it clear that the rookie transport minister would have more to say on the matter.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office announced Wednesday morning that the bridge report would be released, after all.
By early afternoon Lebel had issued a statement stressing his personal commitment to transparency in the matter: "We want to ensure that Canadians have access to information about the Champlain bridge, and that is why the pre-feasibility technical report has been publicly released."
As it turned out, the report was not actually that alarming.
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