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That was David Dingwall,replying to scrutiny that he over-expensed the taxpayer while serving as the head of the Royal Canadian Mint.

How does one become a rocket surgeon?

Concur. Red-neck dinosaurs.

And that demon carbon.

I suspect that it was two different vids, grafted together for effect.

Except those 65% of Canadians who don't live in urban.

The left and the centrists infringe as well.

Perhaps you are the one that has lost perspective. Your posts seem to equate urban planning with altruism. Urban planners take their direction from city managers, who take their direction from politicians. Hence, biases/agendas/visions invariably enter the fray.

Until biases/agendas intrude

It's the economy (spurred by demographics), at all levels, which (mostly) drive decisions, at all levels.

I'm leaning towards the economic market to sort things out. Government intervention rarely goes well.

NIMBY enters (again) the chat.

I detest the agglomeration of "advice/policy" that the powers that be dispense under the guise of making things better, while willfully ignoring/subsuming their own biases and agendas. I get seat belts, I often don't get the flavor of the hour, or minute, that disappears when it comes up against...

Long, long ago, in a galaxy, far, far, away.

As an aside, that is one of the Talking Points that 15 minuters espouse. I fervently do not want to live in any 15 minute contrived construct. I am adult enough to make my decisions based on my experience, and have developed the economic means to choose where, and why, I live. Co-existence with...

Lets put the 15 minute city under a dome, and leave them alone for say, five years. I bingo it will quickly descend to Lord of The Flies.

I don't want to live in an area with 690 people per sq km.(or Belleville) :p

My two oldest boys used to laugh uproariously when the "Kah-nipple" radio ad came on. The acorns don't fall far from..................

Populism is currently associated with Conservatives. It wasn't always so. You have missed my point; to wit, people will go to extremes to gain/maintain power.