Eight years after cancelling the bridge that would replace the George Massey Tunnel, the NDP government has cancelled the contract to construct a new tunnel, plunging the future of the replacement project into uncertainty.

“The NDP government’s management of the George Massey Tunnel Replacement project is absolutely mind-boggling,” said Ian Paton, MLA for Delta South. “If they had proceeded with the bridge project that was already under construction in 2018, it would already have been completed, and with lower costs than what we are looking at now. The NDP have already cancelled, or ‘re-paced’ as they are saying, a long-term care project in Delta, and now it looks like they are also ‘re-pacing’ the tunnel replacement that Delta badly needs.”

“When I raised my concerns about this project to the minister of transportation, he assured me that the costs and timeline were under control,” said Harman Bhangu, Conservative Critic for Transportation. “But this announcement shows this will be another project that goes over budget and over time. No one in the industry believes that this tunnel will cost the $4.15 billion the NDP are claiming; it will likely be closer to $9 billion, and now they’re back to square one on construction. After nearly a decade of delays, the NDP government is again hitting restart, while British Columbians remain stuck in traffic.”

“This is yet another example of extreme incompetence from the NDP government wasting taxpayer’s money,” said Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. “The NDP have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted to deliver the infrastructure projects B.C. needs