The group lobbying for a new regional hospital ramp up the pressure to secure a location for the facility.

With just less than two weeks remaining until the provincial election, the Citizens’ Committee for a Hospital in VaudreuilSoulanges is posting signs across the area to remind voters to ask candidates about the hospital.

“We wanted to put pressure on the government,” committee spokesperson Réjean Boyer said yesterday.

“During the campaign, we are just pressing slowly on the pedal. We go to every meeting asking the question about the hospital,” he said.

The committee expects to present the design and install the largest sign on Cité-desJeunes Boulevard near the entrance to Highway 30 on Wed- nesday morning.

“No one doubts that Vaudreuil-Soulanges desperately needs essential medical services on our territory. Why, after more than four years, do we still not have a site?

“We have had enough with government inaction in this file,” Boyer said in a press release.

The hospital was originally supposed to be completed by 2018, but Boyer said that over the past 18 months, the provincial government does not appear to have selected a site for the building or made much progress on the file.

It may still be possible to make that 2018 deadline, but only if the government acts quickly after the election in April, Boyer said.