$33.6 million Aquatic Centre coming to be Laurier Senior High and Mother Teresa Junior High

The city will finance a third of the cost, estimated at $33,600,000, its share amounting to $11,200,000. The city has given the law firm of Deveau, Bourgeois, Gagné, Hébert et associés the mandate to prepare the protocol for a formal agreement with the English school board, an entente which mayor Gilles Vaillancourt says should be ratified very soon.

"It will be a partnership of the school board, le Mouvement Aquatique Laval (MAL) and the City. It's an interesting partnership."

The mayor doesn't hide the fact that the school board will need the cooperation of the provincial and federal governments to finance the project. The City will authorize the SWLSB to take necessary steps to obtain government subsidies, because the school board will own the building. "We've accepted the partnership and we agree that the school board will apply to the federal government for financial assistance." The application can be made to the federal government's new flagship infrastructure program - the Building Canada Fund (BCF). The funds provided by this program are intended to advance national priorities that are important to all Canadians and which respond to the local and regional infrastructure needs.