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Quebec's Auditor General reported in November 2024 that the provincial government's contribution will supply more than half of the ridership revenue the REM collects over its operating life, and that on CDPQ Infra's own projections Quebec would only begin earning a return on its equity in about 25 years
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src-aba2d5ae17bbd8c0Owner's own page: '67 km of automated electrified lines'; staged commissioning July 2023 (Brossard–Gare Centrale), November 2025 (Gare Centrale–Deux-Montagnes), May 2026 (Bois-Franc–Anse-à-l'Orme), airport 2027. Construction cost '$8.34 B', with CDPQ Infra '$4.97 B' and the Government of Québec and Canada Infrastructure Bank '$1.28 B' each. Cites ARTM data of '$0.80 per km/passenger', which 'includes operating and capital costs'. Operation and maintenance by the Pulsar consortium (Alstom and AtkinsRéalis) under the RSSOM contract.
src-a198a928eeb0ba0cOperator, on the automation test that matters: 'Sans conducteur à bord, le réseau est entièrement piloté et surveillé depuis un centre de contrôle' with 'du personnel en place 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7' — no driver aboard, the network is driven and monitored from a control centre staffed around the clock. Also 'Du personnel est présent sur le réseau en tout temps': customer-service, station, security and intervention agents, none in a driving or supervisory role on the train.
src-bd624979482b3e88'complètement automatisé', Alstom Métropolis rolling stock at 'GOA4' (the highest grade of automation). Network of '67 km' with '23 stations en service' at the time of checking. Note: this page gives 27 stations at completion while CDPQ Infra's English fact sheet gives 26; the entry asserts neither figure.
src-68d6505c0f1e3712The paying authority describes the ownership plainly: 'The Réseau express métropolitain (REM) project is led by CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.' ARTM's own role is limited to 'planning the integration of REM services to the metropolitan collective transport network regarding passenger information, pricing, service schedule harmonization and transfer point arrangements'.
src-77a1c2d5296a0986Carries the impact claim verbatim: 'Depuis notre audit de 2018, les coûts de construction du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) établis par la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ Infra) ont augmenté alors que l'investissement en capital-actions du gouvernement n'a pas changé. La contribution du gouvernement du Québec représentera plus de la moitié des revenus d'achalandage que percevra le REM au cours de son exploitation. Selon les prévisions de CDPQ Infra, le gouvernement du Québec commencerait dans environ 25 ans à obtenir un rendement sur son investissement en capital-actions.' (Construction costs rose while the government's equity stake did not; Quebec's contribution will make up more than half the ridership revenue the REM collects; a return on that equity is roughly 25 years away.)
src-1e5cf1e35ba769d8The audit chapter itself. Our tooling could not render the PDF, so the quoted findings above were taken from the Auditor General's own press release; listed here as the primary document.
src-710f176692c7476bCarries the CA$9.4B project figure and attributes it to the Auditor General's report, up from roughly CA$7B at her 2018 audit. Blocked our fetcher (403); the same figure and attribution appear in Radio-Canada's and Le Devoir's coverage the same day, which is why the number is stated as the Auditor General's count rather than as a bare fact.
src-091748ab55066b69The payment mechanism and its criticism: a contractual base tariff of $0.72 per passenger-kilometre owed by ARTM to CDPQ Infra, indexed to $0.753 for 2023, a rise of 4.58% before the REM carried its first paying passenger. The tariff falls by 20% if ridership reaches 115% of projections, and to the cost of the fare at 140%.
src-2ee70be4575f5ce1Reliability, attributed to its actual origin: 'According to data compiled by Radio-Canada, the REM has experienced service interruptions of 20 minutes or longer roughly one day out of every four since its opening.' Alstom, which built the trains, states 'the REM has not yet delivered the reliability that passengers have the right to expect'; operator Pulsar responds that reliable, frequent service is 'the absolute priority'.
src-f199376d883e5878Operator's own commissioning notice for the Deux-Montagnes branch on 17 November 2025, corroborated by the Ville de Deux-Montagnes and by La Presse (20 Oct 2025), which notes the branch arrived 'after several delays, notably for major work in the Mont-Royal tunnel'.
src-717694934c52726eMunicipal notice on the 2020 shutdown of Canada's oldest electrified commuter line for REM works: the Gare Centrale–Du Ruisseau section closed first, the remainder from 31 December 2020, with bus shuttles from 4 January 2021. Set against the 17 November 2025 REM opening, that is close to five years of replacement bus service on a corridor that had carried roughly 15,000 people a day downtown.