Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?
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Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?
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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 debt. These are all accumulated deficits and liabilities built up from under investment that benefited certain past cohorts. It sucks. But they all have to be fixed by today's young people.
Even that's not free.
Reminds me of this little problem growing in the background.
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Sarcasm ill becomes you. Please name a government project of any nature in the last several decades that has come in on time and at budget. How about that pipeline? From what 8 billion to 33 billion? We have been given a rough guess for a quote without any supporting figures. There is no revealed plan to lay tracks into any of the 4 major cities. At a guess they will have to tunnel which isn't cheap. 70 million dollars per km in fact and that would be for a single tunnel so double it per city plus the subterranean infrastructure for the stations themselves. Building parallel to highway 7 will be an engineering nightmare as there are miles of wetland and where there isn't wetland it is hard rock. Just ask your Scottish ancestors who tried to farm there. Land costs may be high in California but the expropriated costs here in Toronto are going to come close. And oh by the way, the entire Ottawa valley and the Saint Lawrence are on a fault line with numerous tremors recorded in the Quebec City area. They may not be magnitude 8 but they do have to be taken into consideration so there you go.
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It's kind of funny that we've become so accustomed to Govt. projects being so over budget/over timeline, that we need to celebrate when they are not.
If I get a quote of $600 and one day from my mechanic, I don't dance in the parking lot when that turns out to be the case,.....now $400 and an hour later, well then I'm doing a little jig.
If I get a quote of $600 and one day from my mechanic, I don't dance in the parking lot when that turns out to be the case,.....now $400 and an hour later, well then I'm doing a little jig.
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 are much further along than they let on publicly.
Are you under the impression that this is being done without Alto talking to Metrolinx and RTM?
But also it's incredible to accuse them of not knowing anything and then just pulling your own plan out of thin air thinking it's actually credible.
These kind of discussions remind me of random Redditors who think they know more about fighter jets than actual serving RCAF.
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Don’t hire the contractor who redid the WPS HQ.
Massively over budget
Massively over budget
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I hope Irving gets the contract. Upper Canada deserves to experience them.
that is correct actually. What happened to the construction of the TMX was just a foretaste of the opposition any new line will receive along with attendant inflation of costs because of lawsuits, delays, re-routes and the like. You have a PM who as recently as 24 months ago was adamant against any kind of support for LNG or oil development to the extent that he established a banking system that refused to lend money to any such project. He is in charge of a party that sings from the same songbook still. The British called him the unreliable boyfriend when he was running their bank. So treat any announcements from his office with the proper skepticism.
no it didn't. That is the result of 50 years of left leaning government buying off its voters
no it isn't and it is that attitude towards tax dollars that has created the mess this country is in now. Want to see where we are headed? Look at Great Britain. No longer great and can't even put a single frigate to sea
I knew that one would show up. Is it ok to draw another red line?
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Indeed. Every single year for OAS....
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We are going to spend 1.4 trillion dollars on OAS in the time it takes to spend 90b on HSR
Give me a break.
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