"Slap-shot workmanship" and "deficient maintenance" are terms use when determining blame for the overpass collapse that killed five people in Montreal last year.
The hard-hitting commission report came 12 months after the 40-year-old De la Concorde overpass fell onto Hwy. 19 in Laval.
The commissioners' report condemned "widespread negligence" in the building of the bridge.
While half of the bridges in Quebec will need structural work in the next five years, apparently things aren't as bad in Ontario — we can only sing "Ontario bridges falling down" when travelling across one-third of ours.
How very comforting.
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