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Quebec Premier François Legault is defending a controversial decision to invest $30 million in a project that would see blimps used as a form of heavy transport in the province, saying Quebecers should learn to take risks.

Legault’s comments on Tuesday follow demands by the opposition parties in the National Assembly to have access to a study that endorses the investment.

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Speaking to reporters, Legault said that the “brilliant” project, which would see helium-filled blimps carry goods to northern Quebec, is the way of the future. And then, quoting 1970s Quebec children’s TV show host Capitaine Bonhomme, he said, “The skeptics will be con-fon-du.”

Legault said Montreal’s aeronautic community favoured innovation and criticized the Québecor journalists who first reported on the investment, adding that Quebecers must come to terms with taking risks because society does not advanced without doing so.