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I've never been able to find an example of that. Provincial residents do for sure, but not the governments of the provinces. I've asked that in response to the rhetoric that 'Alberta sends $xBn to Ottawa'. For sure its residents, for sure its companies, but not the provincial coffers that I...

If they don't get the outcome they are hoping for, they'll just rendition him to somewhere. So, what, they had one DEA agent along to try and give it legitimacy. It will be interesting to see how they try to massage domestic law enforcement's authority to arrest a foreign national on foreign...

I hope you're not using that 100km as a shining example of rapid highway construction. It seems Quebec has been building that out of petty cash. They started twinning it in 2002 and are scheduled to be finished until sometime later this year. The argument I read from the government was it...

Ya, I don't know enough about the economics of rail vs road for the various types of commodities over distances. Certain loads, like online (Amazon), courier (FedEx) and foodstuffs need overnight/quick turnaround that the handling from road>rail>road simply can't provide. I had a buddy who...

There's a lot of real estate between "impossible" (which I didn't claim) and reasonable. It's pretty difficult to compare building a 19th century railway where, in the prairies, wasn't even ballasted - ties just laid on graded earth, with a highway built to modern standards. I'm not sure...

Ya. Caught up in the discussion while watching the Leafs lose.

If you have a way to twin about 1900 km of highway (Renfrew to Kenora) with the workforce and economy we have inside a lifetime I'm sure they would love to hear from you. New highway 413 in southern Ontario will be 52 km long and take at least a decade for about $10Bn.

Lived there for three years. Loved every minute of it. The traffic counts on both 11 or 17 aren't spectacular; although more commercial traffic does shift to Hwy 11 in the winter. Every winter is a challenge, but this year has been particularly disruptive. Highway alignment is only part of...

There are two places in Ontario where there is only one roadway connecting east and west Canada; from the Manitoba border to just east of Kenora (where Hwys 71 and 11 are an alternate), and from Thunder Bay to Nipigon. The government's answer is to twin both of these sections - slowly. Some...

And by implication, Europe is Russia's and the western pacific is China's?

Unless you intend for the State to build redundancies and operate them at a loss, there is little economic reason for companies to support it. Individual railways used to have multiple lines going to and from the same places - virtually all gone unless there is existing enroute revenue. With...

Roughly ten times the population will do that. We had three transcontinental railways; two went bankrupt.

Give him time. He's mused about taking Panama back'. He just said Cuba is a failed state and needs his attention. Let's not forget Greenland. He's only one man; give him time.

Just heard: 'I didn't tell Congress. Congress is full of leakers'

Or what?

In the tiny space that Trump's brain occupies, about half of the Alberta legislature is under recall so is illegitimate. Canada is a major source of fentanyl and a threat to us national security. Oh, btw, it also has lots of oil, probably stolen from them. Anything can be justified...

And now his usual ramblings off into domestic issues. He doesn't sound well; although at his age, if he's been up all night I would probably sound like that too. Replace 'Exxon' with 'Dole' and it sounds a lot like what happened to Hawaii.

Anything I see on here from you is anything that is anti-MAGA/anti-Trump is anti-American.

I honestly don't know the public view on the topic. It really hasn't been platform issue in years. Unless they see a strong public support, no political party is going to touch this third rail, no matter how well articulated the position is. Two things drive political platforms: ideology...

No kidding. This is either knee-jerk or he legitimately feels that national sovereignty is conditional.