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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    This country. Every level of government wants to run the one below them and have their own core responsibilities shifted to the one above them. Cities want provinces to build roads and transit. Provinces want to tell city councils what size they should be and what developments they should...
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    VIA Rail

    To be fair, some newer HSR in places like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia run at 300 kph. And a lot of Asia is designed for 300+ kph. But that's still hardly the norm for the average intercity rail passenger in those countries. And they've also achieved this by sacrificing last mile access in many...
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    VIA Rail

    No. It's not. There's not a lot of 300 kph track. And the majority of even HSR traffic rides on corridors of less than 300 kph.
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    VIA Rail

    We should. But we would also be mad at the Trudeau Liberals for pulling a Wynne and basically doing nothing significant for half a decade and then contracting a bit of pre-bid work for 3 years. Building HxR is like building up the military. Can't have progress without some level of...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    There will always be problems. It's not a reason to turn away refugees. Maybe the government should get better at processing these claims so they aren't kept in hotels very long.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    They don't care. This government and its base is desperate to tell the provinces what to do. That's somewhat tolerable when they are using the powers of the purse and trying to encourage change with the lure of dollars. But now we're getting to the point where they are telling provinces how...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Right on cue. This is why the feds constantly trying to run the provinces won't work: https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/trudeaus-housing-plan-meddling-in-quebec-jurisdictions-roberge/wcm/30f1b1d1-6b5a-4444-9f6c-48ddd599c18a/ If they want to fix the housing crisis, they should stick to...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Tokenism. And won't do much when we are growing this fast: https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/ This article goes over the fact that Millennials and Zoomers have substantially soured on this government and have moved from Liberals to Conservatives. It's going to...
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    VIA Rail

    Yeah. But it's not even HSR. We're vaguely hoping somebody can kinda make an HSR-Lite business case work.
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    VIA Rail

    Mid-2030s would be two decades after the Trudeau the Liberals first got elected and a quarter century after HFR was first conceived. And this is the best case scenario, assuming the project survives the next election, in its present form.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    The Liberals could scrap the carbon tax tomorrow and they'd still lose the next election. Cost of living is a much wider problem.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Which would be evidence that you don't understand how people use EVs. The best places to charge are home or work. Or places where somebody might spend about 20-30 mins doing something else. That's why grocery stores are becoming popular locations for chargers in Europe. Everybody has to buy...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Unlike the GST, the carbon tax is unlikely to endure. I wish it would. But the argument on this has been lost.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    You can scream all you want. But like I said earlier, the average person neither understands nor cares about tax credits. Also, your economic ignorance is really showing. The reason the American economy is booming isn't really the IRA. It's the large deficits they are running.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    People can't live in agreements. The Bank of Canada gets its mandate from the government. They are free to legislate a change to the 2% target if they want. You have been told this before. Are you just starting to troll by repeating debunked points now? The carbon tax wasn't a problem...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    What's your evidence to back this up? The average person neither knows nor cares about investment tax credits. I'd bet a paycheque that you couldn't explain the impact of them in any depth beyond what some Liberal forum told you either. I invest in cleantech. I'm aware of the value of...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    They don't get how it works. You can and have to be wonkish in Opposition to show you can govern. In office, you have to show empathy so that voters think you understand their priorities and issues. This video is good. But they've got a bigger comms problem.
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    News from across Europe

    Hungary has been a massive winner in the transition to EVs. Surprising they wouldn't want to continue the pressure on others with climate policy.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Let's be honest. The reason we are getting flooded with students is because we provide them a pathway to residency. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. What is bad is that we have designed a system that misdirects and misplaces their efforts. So instead of getting construction and healthcare...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Toronto already imposed severe restrictions on Airbnb. Go look up how that's going with enforcement. We could do this. But you know we won't. Getting rid of half a million TFWs would be massively disruptive to the economy. More so than getting rid of students. And the TFWs tend to be way...

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