You mentioned toxic assets -- the President and the team are working, as you said, to set up a program -- I think the time frame is realistic -- to set up a program and a plan through that partnership to remove toxic assets from the balance sheets of financial institutions.

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We have the power to change that and I think the power is sitting together and coming up with a plan that works for both sides.

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"I think it is important to have a back-up plan if you don't get what you really want in the first place - you need to have an education to fall back on and you can learn a lot of things here like life skills and other things, " he said.

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President Obama came up with a new plan yesterday which I still don't think it's big enough.

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But the investors are not waiting for downgrades: they are dumping exposure to the south European countries who have just signed up for a decade of austerity - because they just don't think the whole plan is sustainable.

BBC: How will the two speed Europe get into gear?

The plan points up Bloomberg's ambition to leave a legacy of think-big projects, and it's poised to resolve a yearslong, sometimes divisive debate over what to do with the historic armory and what the city's poorest borough would get out of it.

WSJ: Celebs join project for giant NYC skating center

Leblanc and the BTMM think one way of opening up greater Montreal to potential economic spinoffs from the Plan Nord project is to build a strong networking connection between contractors, suppliers and qualified labor from the area.

FORBES: Plan Nord Could See Spinoffs Of $51.8 Billion For Montreal -- BTMM