It actually says even more that this is the comparison and that it's completely reasonable (despite the completely different circumstances of course). #justgirliecanadathings
The majority of Canadians and the government will just see it as smug "well but we aren't American why would we need to hide from the police/anyone" shit but it's not just embarrassing it's essentially the complete collapse of the country when nobody in any industry wants to be in canada, and the ones that are either want to flee or they're waiting to find out if the indians will get ownership of all their assets. They're somehow taking the worst parts from all these shit countries and being smug about how great they are it's insane. Carney doesn't care, if all these companies run back to the US then he can actually invest in them lol
It's deliberate sabotage atp because Canada doing bad will mean all those companies will go south, where all of Carney's investments are.
Also about the VPNs leaving, I predict that the censorship will fail miserably in practice, but they will still pack up and leave even if the government backtracks on those laws. Because why trust your investments and businesses on a spastic time bomb like Canada.
It's deliberate sabotage atp because Canada doing bad will mean all those companies will go south, where all of Carney's investments are.
Also about the VPNs leaving, I predict that the censorship will fail miserably in practice, but they will still pack up and leave even if the government backtracks on those laws. Because why trust your investments and businesses on a spastic time bomb like Canada.
ALTO (promised price tag: $90B, but projects of this scale typically go overbudget, overschedule, and with Ottawa's reputation, underdeliver. If I use the Trans-Mountain expansion as a baseline, I could see this ballooning to $200-250B for a service a vast majority of Canadians will never use.)
Only Canada would waste money on a "high speed" train for a route that is already served by a slightly slower train (the proposed stops are far too numerous and close together for the new train to actually be high speed). There's a lot more important and cheaper infrastructure projects like bringing the only cross-country highway up to freeway standards for its entire route. Canada should be embarrassed that they still don't have that 70 years after the US built its highway SYSTEM:
The timeline is also insanely long; China built thousands of miles of HSR in less time than the Liberals project to build one line from Ottawa to Montreal (which practically guarantees that it's going to be a Californian-style grift project that builds nothing).
Only Canada would waste money on a "high speed" train for a route that is already served by a slightly slower train (the proposed stops are far too numerous and close together for the new train to actually be high speed). [...] The timeline is also insanely long; China built thousands of miles of HSR in less time than the Liberals project to build one line from Ottawa to Montreal
I used to take the between Toronto and Ottawa semi-frequently a few years ago, but I ended up switching to the plane pretty quickly.
The plane ride only takes like an hour or an hour and a half, depending on if you count the time spent in an airport, and it's pretty comparable in price too. The train ride regularly took 5+ hours, and sometimes retards will kill themselves using the tracks and that can create 3-4 hour delays.
I wanted to see the difference in cost, so I used Google Flights and the VIA Rail website to compare two trips. The time of the trip, 6-13 June, was the same for both. The total travel time, round trip, for the flight was 2h10 minutes and for the train it was 9 hours and 38 minutes. The train was still somehow CA$18.34 more than the flight, even though you'd have to spend 7 hours and 28 minutes more on travel time.
Like Jetpack Himmler said, the ALTO project is just a glamour project that'll go over-budget and take way longer to build than they claim. It won't serve anyone, unless they price it at a fourth of the average plane ticket. The air travel infrastructure is already developed along the Windsor - QC City corridor, it's convenient and cheaper to use than the currently-existing rail. It'll be hard to convince the consumer to make the switch to a HSR option when the plane will still be faster and cheaper. You can tell that this entire project was thought up by bigwigs that haven't bothered to use the train in decades, if ever at all.
Even the average Joe is aware of all the problems that ALTO will inevitably face. ALTO had a website at one point that allowed people to see the proposed rail route. People were allowed to comment on the rail route to share their feedback. Website moderators went through and deleted more than half of the comments: most of the comments deleted were expressing concern or doubt about projected cost, utility, and schedule. Media caught wind of this and they quickly reinstated some of the comments, but over 40% remain deleted.
The Laurentine elites looked at the Commiefornia high speed rail boondoggle and were like "damn! Why didn't we think of that!"
2.5 billion dollars gone into friendly pockets and not a single peep out of anyone. So they said, "well why don't we just do that?" And so was born the ALTO project.
It will never get done, it will cost 500% more then it was budgeted and by the end no one will know where most of the tax dollars went too. All in all pretty typical for a Federal project, just this time a bit more open theft, don't you dare ask questions and less "we spent your money so be happy it created jerbs!" shtick.
