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Benoit Poirier
Okay, perfect. And Ian, could you give us an update on the LRT projects with respect to Eglinton, REM and Trillium?
Ian Edwards
Yes. So let’s take Eglinton first. Because there’s been some media about Eglinton, I mean, clearly this is a project that is more than halfway through. So we’re well advanced in the project. There have been issues in the past three years with respect to working in urban environment and tie communities with permitting and community interface, and all of those kind of third-party issues that are not unusual. And they have had an impact on the project. And we are working very close with the client to optimize the best completion date for that project expected now in 2022, early 2022. And clearly these are all issues that are out with the original contemplation of the contract. And we’re also working closely with the client to resolve those from a commercial perspective. So we’re actually really pleased with where the project is heading and how we’re dealing with the challenges together with the client.
On REM, as you’d saw, we had various challenges together with the client. Some of which was attributable to the existing tunnel here and some other issues that we needed again to face together with the client. Our business is about providing solutions to challenges and our business is about overcoming those challenges with the client such that it’s a win-win outcome. And we achieved that at the end of the year with the client on REM and put a commercial arrangement in place. So that we could really focus on driving the performance of the project and completing that project on time, so very satisfied with the outcome there.
On the Trillium project, again, a lot of media noise around the bid. We are very satisfied with our bid. We have now been working on the project for over a year. We have – we got passed the first construction season last year. I was actually on the project last week. We’re setting ourselves up for a busy construction season. We’re ready for that. It’s gone well so far. But it’s early days. We’re less than 20% complete on that project. But all things look positive from that perspective so far.