You today launched the first building of the Canceropôle, flagship of Toulouse. Have you changed the initial project
It was a fragile folder. It took particular better to integrate the Canceropôle into the city by creating, for example, a line of buses in own site. It was also to front-line scientific culture, as can no longer consider the science without ethics. Thus, we have built a housing project of the patient to allow families and conduct reflections on the place of the user of health.

Where is the site of the new urban community
We have managed this transformation in record time but cannot spend 300 to 2,600 officers smoothly, as shown by the recent conflict in the garbage. Our community currently has a minimum skills. We will make progress. I launched the first phase of designing a real project of agglomeration and we think at the same time enlargement of its skills, for example the large cultural and sports, equipment to international relations, politics of the city projects. All this is under discussion between the Commons to be ready at the end of 2010.
Are you going to put an end to uncontrolled urban sprawl of the Toulouse metropolitan area
Territorial coherence scheme, an urban area of 100 communes and some 800,000 inhabitants, is in phase of reflection. There is already a consensus to densify the centre of the town. Toulouse must therefore allow more than half of the 15,000 to 18,000 new residents per year of the metropolitan area. To this end, we have already acquired land for the construction of social housing. We want to also put the high buildings in the centre of the project rather than urban facade, and implement cultural and economic facilities. But for this densification does not harm, must make efforts on the quality of services and the means of travel. However, here was the Metro in the belief that it would all settle, but transportation means are not sufficient. In short, we must catch up in a mandate the implementation of an urban project that identifies the city to the knowledge, research and higher education. Toulouse wants to develop the concept of city campus. This urban agglomeration project is to be adopted at the end of 2010.
At the time where local communities funding are called into question, this falls rather evil
Yes, it is a challenge, I grant you. We need to make priority choices if the weakening of the local operation is completed. But the State playing the sorcerer's apprentice because we are involved in many contracts that fall within its jurisdiction. If we don't have more means, it is our participation in these projects that we could be led to reduce, whether road axes or the LGV Paris-Toulouse project, for which we are asked to 220 million.
Are you willing to transfer to the future metropolis of the competencies of the Department
I do not fall into this trap! It doesn't interest me to for example the management of the RMI - RSA. On the other hand, the metropolis may share with the area of skills on higher education, research, technological development and major infrastructure. I also see the metropolis and the partners of the State and the regions in international relations. Cities must be with the State and the regions, players of the great challenges of the 21st century.
That is what bothers you the most in land reform
The creation of the territorial Councillors. For me, this is a politician fighting to reduce the weight of the left and in particular the Socialist Party. The other problem is that it re-creates the cumulation of mandates, which had avoided with the General and regional advisers. Departments and regions are two entities with values and very different and necessary functions. With this reform, these are the regions that will lose, because the future common territorial advisors have a départementaliste reflex for the defence of their territory. And the dynamics that are created between the communities and regions and which allowed to make up for the role that plays more the State in the field of knowledge, large infrastructure, economic development, emerging sectors, are likely to be sterilized.