Cancelling high-speed rail isn’t a vision for the future of Canada
https://cultmtl.com/2026/04/cancelling-high-speed-rail-isnt-a-vision-for-the-future-of-canada/
https://cultmtl.com/2026/04/cancelling-high-speed-rail-isnt-a-vision-for-the-future-of-canada/
11 Comments
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 132d
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 131d
...which are 99-100% American-owned. Keep that in-mind.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 131d
Jhex@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 132d
And he hasn't even given a good reason to cancel the project… he just seems too stupid to understand why it's important
ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social · 5 pts · 131d
He's not stupid. He's paid to believe and promote these pro-oil anti-human ideas.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 130d
if he wasn't stupid, he'd do a better job on that
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 132d
Living in a rural community, this is exactly what many people think. Just your average Timbit Trump supporters.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 132d
Jesus Christ Pollieve hates Canada
wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 132d
Jesus fuck PP. you socialist housing trump wanna be twat. Shut your fucking pi hole. 2/3rds is Canadas population live along this corridor. This would be an amazing investment for Canada.
Fuck off under a rock loser.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 131d
Not defending the guy, but I mean, just add him to the list of how many million car-brained people exist on this country. He was raised just like us, in cities where public transit was always an inconvenience, and not the way of the future.
You know who else calls for cancelling such projects? Likely your neighbors, who don't want to fit the bill for the betterment of Canada. The same jackasses who would vote for PP. That's the larger, more pressing concern in my mind.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 131d
While Ontario is conservative, very few of the conservative ridings are improved directly by rail access between Toronto and Montreal.
Other conservative provinces derive no benefit.
It's easy to frame this as a "only really helps libs" project when the constituents can't do math or understand just how many Canadians live along that corridor.
Would I like accessible rail travel across Canada via a big project to quad-up and extend the existing tracks so shipping is cheap and passenger/mixed trains are feasible? For sure. I don't see that happening; but let's help the most of us even if it doesn't benefit our neighbourhood.
Huh. Is selfishness a conservative trait, though?
rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 131d
When ever was that the case? They've always preferred cutting on social programs in favour of private solutions.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 130d
This would be a way to massively decrease our GHG emissions by reducing the need for either driving or regional flights. So of course he's against it, because his masters order him to.