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They were literally Liberals who had their memberships cancelled when the LPC wanted to push the idea of Senate reform or an independent Senate. If you want non-partisan Senators, you'll need to create a non-partisan appointment process.

Indeed. Every single year for OAS....

They published the Corridor areas and they all include access to the cities and proposed station areas. The only thing they haven't published is the exact track line. And they discussed their reasons for not doing that during the consultation. If they are months away from expropriation, they...

Even that's not free. Reminds me of this little problem growing in the background. https://thenarwhal.ca/the-story-of-albertas-100-billion-well-liability-problem-how-did-we-get-here/

It's funny how generational inequality advocates (like Gen Squeeze) also support defence spending. They don't see contradictions in advocating for higher defence spending, infrastructure spending and deficit reduction. The defence backlog is no different than the infrastructure backlog or the...

Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?

This isn't a gotcha in this thread. You can search my history and see where I have discussed OAS as the biggest fiscal threat before. It's at $80B per year. Growing to $100B by 2030 (as per government estimate). It's larger than defence spending and child benefits combined. It eats up every...

Unfortunately, scope reduction is not politically feasible. But I fully agree here.

Or spend it on beer money for old people.

Same logic. We cut OAS in Alberta to pay for pipelines. Cut OAS in the Maritimes and BC to pay for their ferries. Etc. I'm all for it. Not sure why you think I only care about infrastructure in my region or OAS for old people in my province. I would actually vote for a government that...

Yep. People are really forgetting what happened the last time deficit became priority #1. Which given the time some people here served I would think they would intimately understand. But again, as I've said elsewhere. $80B per year on OAS. Not open to discussion. $80B over 15-20 years on...

Exactly my point.

I've argued that the feds should stop funding local public transit and dedicate that funding to regional transport projects that have wider economic impacts. Hard to do this politically though when MPs need ribbon cuttings. Should be noted that Alto will cost basically as much as the feds are...

Pipelines are being built..... But I suspect even if we built 10 pipelines tomorrow, there would always be an excuse why this isn't important or can't be built or ... Or ....

Rail works best regionally. Obviously nobody is going to be taking a train from Halifax to Winnipeg. Well some crazy kook.... But regular speed rail (160kph) is competitive with driving upto 500 kph. HSR is competitive with flying up to 800 km. There's no reason, for example, we shouldn't...

Generational thing. Our forefathers literally created this country using a railroad. There's just a current generation that can't think past tax returns. That might change. Heck, even the CPC response has Dan Albas admitting that young people travel and wonder why we can't have this at home.

The same argument can be made for just about anything. And indeed a lot of people have used that argument against defence spending. I've said this before. Defence spending at very high (shall we say ahistorical for Canada) levels is not sustainable unless the government is also addressing...

As an Ontarian, I feel this.....

They aren't interested in discussion. They want it cancelled. And will say or do anything to achieve their goals. I spend time on the opponent sites to see what actual issues there are. And it's like picking fly shit out of pepper. For every person who has a genuine concern there's like 10...

I was posted in California when they started construction. That project is uniquely flawed. They set speed goals that are some of the highest in the world, without ever considering the budget. They didn't have decent access corridors into LA and SF. Imagine building Alto without GO to get...