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I will certainly accept your knowledge on that but before anyone buys in they have to know that the barrier will be circumvented.

every condition that you tack on provides another reason not to buy in. You are thinking like a Canadian. Yes but is our favourite expression

but the pen hasn't flicked and most of them have been burnt by the feds too many times to want to risk capital unless it isn't a risk. I think some assurances from Carney that the consultation will be an information session and conditional on their approval would help but having the various...

ball is in Carney's court. There are two issues he has to reverse: the size of the tanker and the industrial carbon levy. Building parallel to Transmountain would add to the congestion in Vancouver harbour and that is the only route open with the constraints on tanker size in the north unless...

and if more than one train a day or whatever were to stop there the cab company just might think that it was worthwhile to meet the train. "you have not because you ask not"

and the government promised a balanced budget......And no I did not give the highways the benefit of the doubt. You really must have struggled in school with your comprehension deficiency. :ROFLMAO:

the survey lines at least delineate the dividing line between landowners. If you can follow one of them the right of way will take 50 meters off adjacent lots without butchering a series of properties. Might be a number of houses to set back or replace but at least the majority of land is...

with road rage being what it is these days there is no way that I would join that procession cutting in front of the cars.

not at all. With the cost of highways for example I see no reason why they don't primarily follow the lot lines rather than hacking off a chunk of land. Whereas highways may be necessary it should be possible to reduce the upheaval more than they do.

is that entirely true though? Consider that Alto wants 60 meters starting 20 meters beyond the barn. The family is out of business as it eliminates grandpa's entire farm from production. Farms are side by side so there will be no adjacent land that could be attached to the original homestead...

are they installing backup generation? That is a lot of expansion.

your comment implied that you were open to ensuring that the laws and processes would somehow keep our assets safe from outside interference, thus the statement and it was not a question except in the rhetorical sense. My position is that one is better keeping the enemy and yes I am referring...

and you wouldn't object to a nation with this kind of history of interference being granted financial access to our major potentially strategic assets? (referring to comments on privatization). Laws are only useful to help honest people stay honest and to identify when bad people do bad things

I wish there was a more applicable word than "hopefully". If Beijing makes an offer you can bet it will cost us dearly if history is any indication

and you can bet that Beijing will be right in there with the dollars. It is a very dangerous road to travel. What they are after is more money to spend

no Halifax, what he is saying that since we did it to (your) great grandfather it is quite ok to do it to your sons as well. The people arguing for HS are the same people on this site who were advocating virtual meetings which ironically would eliminate a lot of the necessity for getting to...

True but less land is needed for curves etc. if you drop the speeds below 120 and you don't need as many overpasses. Didn't those old steam trains run faster in some cases than the current VIA? I can certainly recall racing the dayliner to Owen Sound and having it pull ahead.

Yours is an elitist attitude. Peterborough/Toronto ran full until they stopped it. I caught the Budd out of Victoria and fit was half full of normal people taking advantage of a service that allowed them to leave their cars in the drive. Each GO train they put into service on previously...

In a lot of places i.e. Victoria to Nanaimo the right of way is already there. There is also a line from Halifax to Sydney, Parry Sound to Ottawa and just about any other city pair you want to choose. Alto is not proof of concept, that can be found in all of those wonderful European cities...

no argument. So do you build a half a dozen lines (VR Island, lower mainland, Calgary/Edmonton, Windsor/Toronto, Toronto/Quebec via Montreal and probably an argument for one through Nova Scotia as well, or do we spend all the money and time on a single line that accommodates only the principal...