It actually says even more that this is the comparison and that it's completely reasonable (despite the completely different circumstances of course). #justgirliecanadathings
The majority of Canadians and the government will just see it as smug "well but we aren't American why would we need to hide from the police/anyone" shit but it's not just embarrassing it's essentially the complete collapse of the country when nobody in any industry wants to be in canada, and the ones that are either want to flee or they're waiting to find out if the indians will get ownership of all their assets. They're somehow taking the worst parts from all these shit countries and being smug about how great they are it's insane. Carney doesn't care, if all these companies run back to the US then he can actually invest in them lol
It's deliberate sabotage atp because Canada doing bad will mean all those companies will go south, where all of Carney's investments are.
Also about the VPNs leaving, I predict that the censorship will fail miserably in practice, but they will still pack up and leave even if the government backtracks on those laws. Because why trust your investments and businesses on a spastic time bomb like Canada.
It's deliberate sabotage atp because Canada doing bad will mean all those companies will go south, where all of Carney's investments are.
Also about the VPNs leaving, I predict that the censorship will fail miserably in practice, but they will still pack up and leave even if the government backtracks on those laws. Because why trust your investments and businesses on a spastic time bomb like Canada.
ALTO (promised price tag: $90B, but projects of this scale typically go overbudget, overschedule, and with Ottawa's reputation, underdeliver. If I use the Trans-Mountain expansion as a baseline, I could see this ballooning to $200-250B for a service a vast majority of Canadians will never use.)
Only Canada would waste money on a "high speed" train for a route that is already served by a slightly slower train (the proposed stops are far too numerous and close together for the new train to actually be high speed). There's a lot more important and cheaper infrastructure projects like bringing the only cross-country highway up to freeway standards for its entire route. Canada should be embarrassed that they still don't have that 70 years after the US built its highway SYSTEM:
The timeline is also insanely long; China built thousands of miles of HSR in less time than the Liberals project to build one line from Ottawa to Montreal (which practically guarantees that it's going to be a Californian-style grift project that builds nothing).
Only Canada would waste money on a "high speed" train for a route that is already served by a slightly slower train (the proposed stops are far too numerous and close together for the new train to actually be high speed). [...] The timeline is also insanely long; China built thousands of miles of HSR in less time than the Liberals project to build one line from Ottawa to Montreal
I used to take the between Toronto and Ottawa semi-frequently a few years ago, but I ended up switching to the plane pretty quickly.
The plane ride only takes like an hour or an hour and a half, depending on if you count the time spent in an airport, and it's pretty comparable in price too. The train ride regularly took 5+ hours, and sometimes retards will kill themselves using the tracks and that can create 3-4 hour delays.
I wanted to see the difference in cost, so I used Google Flights and the VIA Rail website to compare two trips. The time of the trip, 6-13 June, was the same for both. The total travel time, round trip, for the flight was 2h10 minutes and for the train it was 9 hours and 38 minutes. The train was still somehow CA$18.34 more than the flight, even though you'd have to spend 7 hours and 28 minutes more on travel time.
Like Jetpack Himmler said, the ALTO project is just a glamour project that'll go over-budget and take way longer to build than they claim. It won't serve anyone, unless they price it at a fourth of the average plane ticket. The air travel infrastructure is already developed along the Windsor - QC City corridor, it's convenient and cheaper to use than the currently-existing rail. It'll be hard to convince the consumer to make the switch to a HSR option when the plane will still be faster and cheaper. You can tell that this entire project was thought up by bigwigs that haven't bothered to use the train in decades, if ever at all.
Even the average Joe is aware of all the problems that ALTO will inevitably face. ALTO had a website at one point that allowed people to see the proposed rail route. People were allowed to comment on the rail route to share their feedback. Website moderators went through and deleted more than half of the comments: most of the comments deleted were expressing concern or doubt about projected cost, utility, and schedule. Media caught wind of this and they quickly reinstated some of the comments, but over 40% remain deleted.
The Laurentine elites looked at the Commiefornia high speed rail boondoggle and were like "damn! Why didn't we think of that!"
2.5 billion dollars gone into friendly pockets and not a single peep out of anyone. So they said, "well why don't we just do that?" And so was born the ALTO project.
It will never get done, it will cost 500% more then it was budgeted and by the end no one will know where most of the tax dollars went too. All in all pretty typical for a Federal project, just this time a bit more open theft, don't you dare ask questions and less "we spent your money so be happy it created jerbs!" shtick.
Only Canada would waste money on a "high speed" train for a route that is already served by a slightly slower train (the proposed stops are far too numerous and close together for the new train to actually be high speed). There's a lot more important and cheaper infrastructure projects like bringing the only cross-country highway up to freeway standards for its entire route. Canada should be embarrassed that they still don't have that 70 years after the US built its highway SYSTEM: View attachment 9035534View attachment 9035541
The timeline is also insanely long; China built thousands of miles of HSR in less time than the Liberals project to build one line from Ottawa to Montreal (which practically guarantees that it's going to be a Californian-style grift project that builds nothing).
Oh you mean like the LRT in Toronto that cost $13 billion (1+billion overbudget) and only took 15 years? Or the Ontario one that's supposed to cost $30 billion (so like, 90 nowadays) at over a billion/km? They always pick the WORST possible option and still fuck it up. But in case you didn't know orange man bad, so...
They still haven't finished any of their proposed new SkyTrain expansions over there either. There's so much red tape bullshit you have to go through, nothing gets done, it's just perpetual construction cluttering up the roads and lots. At least the Bennett's got shit done when they committed hundreds of millions to infrastructure projects back in the day.
Whites are easily less than 35% of the country now. In Toronto, you can count with one hand the number of Whites you can still see walking around. It's a dead, gay corpse of a country, and only the 3rd world and banker maggots are still feasting on what's left.
Canada is not at any state of war or embargo, and the companies leaving are mostly ones that were headquartered in Canada or had the majority of their sales being Canada until recently. The difference is significant, and comparing the two is comparing Canada to a country everyone hates and decided not to do business with.
I think if we elect a couple more openly business hostile governments that will favor our current oligarchs and block foreign businesses operating and/or investing as much as humanly possible we should come out the other side OK.
There's a lot more important and cheaper infrastructure projects like bringing the only cross-country highway up to freeway standards for its entire route. Canada should be embarrassed that they still don't have that 70 years after the US built its highway SYSTEM:
I think this once again comes down to the Canadian's innate inability to compare Canada to literally any other developed country. If you've driven across any significant stretch of the Trans-Canada you should know the state of it is unacceptable for such a major piece of cross-country infrastructure. This is especially true if you've ever stepped the fuck outside the country and driven across another developed nation.
But we don't do things like that here, we're only allowed to compare ourselves to the US, and only if we believe they're doing something worse than us so we can use that as an excuse to not change a single fucking thing about our broken systems.
The leadership concerns are just what they are running with. For some reasons the Liberals and the Federal Government really hate PP. D'Entremount is a prickly Nova Scotian asshole on a good day. Ma just shifted with the wind and most certainly represents Chinese interests. Gladue is a weird one, because she's one of the most actually Conservative members in Parliament and the NDP woman most likely got bribed or blackmailed. I think her Son is in some kind of hot water.
People take about the concept of a pre-bribe. After services are rendered you suddenly get a massive windfall. Like Hillary getting a million dollars to speak at Goldman-Sachs for 45 minutes. Obama and his Netflix deal for enforcing net-neutrality. Obama and his biography deal of 20 something million from the people who were awarded the contract to publish common core textbooks. Watch what these people do after they leave Parliament.
Except D'Entremount both riding associations hate him now, both sets of donors hate him now. I imagine he will not stand for the next election and he can't even threaten resignation as if there is a byelection that riding will most likely swing Conservative.
I saw a story about the company her husband and her co-own getting no-bid work, she was expensing stuff from the company to her office and only paid it back after she got caught, her son is an alleged rapist and I think her other kid is in legal trouble, and I think the mine that every non-CCP company on the planet said had 12 years to being completely worthless rather than the currently "massively cost-ineffective" that's getting a big federal road project is somehow related to her/her husband/her electoral district.
How about we shit on them because there's no way she wrote the damned story about western countries, and because she's a weak-willed Syrupean retard, she let the showrunner portray it as though is was in the US, as though there isn't 50-odd dune coon countries that go from "You can leave the house and drive if a male relative is present" to "We're about an inch from just shackling 6 year old girls to the bed." The BBC had the audacity to run a story about "Won't someone think of the poor Afghani man that sold his 5 year old daughter into sexual slavery, because his only other job options were 'join the taliban' or 'get an actual job!'"
I don’t that it is. Canada is torpedoing every agreement it has with the US while blatantly allowing the CCP to buy off the government and not lifting a finger on the border. That’s aside from Canada being the money laundering capital of the world and having insane politicians publicly spout shit like “the US is the biggest threat to Canada.”
IMO Canada is a very big security issue that will need to be dealt with one way or another. It’s absurd to say that the US is a threat to Canada when its entire national security plan is “no one will fuck with us because they’ll have to deal with America” while inviting in the IRGC and CCP to setup shop complete with their own government representatives to make sure no one asks any questions.
It's deliberate sabotage atp because Canada doing bad will mean all those companies will go south, where all of Carney's investments are.
Also about the VPNs leaving, I predict that the censorship will fail miserably in practice, but they will still pack up and leave even if the government backtracks on those laws. Because why trust your investments and businesses on a spastic time bomb like Canada.
I tried to explain to a Syrupean that oil companies (and fucking near every other resource extraction or manufacturing company) are staying out of Canadia specifically because of exactly these kinds of targeted policies, whether the policy is explcitly laid out in legislation, or just exists as a result of bureaucratic inaction.
I love this guys voice, nasally, obnoxious and clueless. A man with a voice for print and a face for radio. Screaming into the void about things he does not understand. Thoroughly unpleasant, and opining on things he knows nothing about.
The board they are losing their minds over is a semi-annual conference which seems to generate white papers that no one will read. It is for the civilian self proclaimed academics to get together, waste time and accomplish very little.
Now, the issue with the spending isn't that the money is being spent, it's about what it is being spent on and the capabilities generated. Which is very little. The Canadian government moves at a snail's pace, taking decades to onboard new capabilities. So the mythical 2% is just rhetoric. The Canadian government is attempting to slow walk things and wait out the current US administration. The administration is not falling for it.
Now back to this nerd's rant. Letter vs spirit of the law is what it can be summed up as. I obeyed the letter, why are you punishing me for disobeying the spirit? Next he talks about shared defence, NORAD was from an era pre-satellite imaging and modern ISR. Where it was possible for Russian bombers to come over the poles at a moment's notice and fire missiles. Where millions of soviet soldiers would cross the Bering Strait and flood into Alaska.
It's an era that no longer exists. What does this mean for NORAD? Who knows. Is it possible that NORAD becomes obsolete as better sensors come online and the geography of Canada is no longer needed? I don't know.
Update: Since between the two petitions there are 700,000 signatures (that are presumed to not overlap significantly), We will be holding a combined referendum question, "Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?"
This question is Not in compliance with the Clarity act, but if Albertans vote for separation...
So Alberta will be having the seperation question, but it will not be a Clarity Act compliant question. Honestly this is better as it frees the province to actually openly discuss the process and trade deals of seperation so people can make an informed decision before the actual Clarity Act compliant vote.
Plus this question happens two weeks before the US midterms so it has the highest possible chance of getting a vote to begin the seperation process
Update: Since between the two petitions there are 700,000 signatures (that are presumed to not overlap significantly), We will be holding a combined referendum question, "Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?"
This question is Not in compliance with the Clarity act, but if Albertans vote for separation...
So Alberta will be having the seperation question, but it will not be a Clarity Act compliant question. Honestly this is better as it frees the province to actually openly discuss the process and trade deals of seperation so people can make an informed decision before the actual Clarity Act compliant vote.
Plus this question happens two weeks before the US midterms so it has the highest possible chance of getting a vote to begin the seperation process
Such clickbait. I watched some of that so I could see my crush Elbridge Colby and all I got was some faggot Canadian whining about how Americans are mean. 0/10.
Here's some reading how the BC government completely fucked itself with DRIPA, and how if the issue came up during Trudeau's time the entire nation would be fucked. All because they wanted preformative legislation that they don't acknowledge as actionable.
