Quebec wants to lighten the rules for awarding contracts in municipalities [Video]

The Legault government wants to simplify the rules for awarding contracts in municipalities, which are currently said to be too “complex.” The Minister of Municipal Affairs, Andrée Laforest, hopes to table a bill to this effect before Christmas.

“We’re going to lighten the regulatory measures needed to get projects off the ground in towns and cities,” the minister told a press scrum at the Municipal Democracy Summit organized by the Union des municipalités du Québec (UMQ) on Thursday.

More specifically, the project will aim to lighten the rules for calls for tenders and bids.

The minister said she wants to “keep the process completely transparent and legal.” “But it will be much faster. (…) My colleagues (in the Council of Ministers) are in the process of seeing what measures could be added or removed,” she added.

According to Minister Laforest, her bill is the logical follow-up to that of her …