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Sorry, but you don't get it. If you want a successful HSR you have to build the infrastructure and so far it is non-existent...

Did they give them a viable option or was it all or none?

Again no. They have local trains feeding in to the centres. They also have the real milk runs that stop every 3 or 10 km and faster ones that stop about every 30 miles so you get a choice. If you live in Oshawa you don't have to spend an hour getting to Toronto to travel 3 hours to Ottawa...

my 10 year old grandson could be a plank owner on the very first one (sigh)

Toronto has maybe a third of the GTA population. I proposed an infrastructure project that provides a service to the entire population and also serves the rest of Southern Ontario. How is that a hate fest. I have lived with a well-developed rail system and it doesn't start with a point to...

and Toronto is the only place that truly has the infrastructure. Montreal is second and no one else is a close third. The only time the middle class will be riding the HSR is if the boss is paying for it. The average person has no reason to go to any of the proposed stops except for either...

Sad but true. Amazing what effect having to show a profit has on the quality of the product even back then.

Can't you tell from our posts: we were on the trains. :ROFLMAO: It was the lack of priority that did them in, not the speed and many of the routes were cancelled because CN and CP were closing down the lines for freight as well, cutting back on all the low profit routes and divesting...

There was always CHCH in Hamilton, featuring Tiny Talent Time and the Randy Dandy show, for those who didn't watch the Friendly Giant and before that Howdy Doody.

from the "maybe yes, maybe no files": The history that I have heard says that there were others such as Belgium that wanted the F105 but the U.S. put the brakes on the sale by refusing an export license for the nav. and fire control components and our industries didn't have the systems...

the fact that the only western country to become involved in a peer to peer war is opting for these choices should be cause enough to critically evaluate their choices and their rationale.

that was designed to be that way.

is it possible to agree and disagree at the same time? Here is my dilemma. It is a given that we need new coast guard vessels and that those vessels should be properly equipped. The gear mentioned by the minister will go a long way towards establishing our presence and control in the north...

if you can get it through Quebec and provided it doesn't run into first nation blockages through the north.

glad you added that last line. The cliche if you can't do the time don't do the crime is very true. The threat of a long sentence has probably deterred very few. If it had there wouldn't be many criminals in the states with 3 strikes on them knowing it means a long time in prison. What it...

I don't. But consider that the first one built in America was less than a year from initiation to completion. But it isn't so much the time required to put it all together as the drive to get it all together with no excuses.

Funny you should mention this. A little historical note: it took the British 6 years to construct, launch, and fit out HMS Victory. The shipyards in Kingston using local carpenters, smiths and labourers finished HMS. St. Lawrence in 10 months and she was larger in every aspect. The Americans...

Sorry for being a little petulant but my immediate reaction to your post would be "if we only had the guns to send". War of 1812 on Lake Ontario the British had launched and were sailing HMS St. Lawrence from Kingston. That ended the sea war on Lake Ontario because the Americans didn't have...

the important thing is that it sounds good

and thus no pipelines from Alberta to BC and no mining development on North Baffin. Any bets on being able to put through an HS line as proposed? Carney will be able to maintain his eco-centric stance and blame it all on the courts.