Even as a political stunt I think HSR is a disaster. It's not so much that such a shower of ill-considered pork-barrel spending in "Laurentian Canada" will cost them votes in Alberta (because they're dead there anyway), but it could do something even worse, by fanning the flames of actual Alberta separatism, which, considering the curren…
Even as a political stunt I think HSR is a disaster. It's not so much that such a shower of ill-considered pork-barrel spending in "Laurentian Canada" will cost them votes in Alberta (because they're dead there anyway), but it could do something even worse, by fanning the flames of actual Alberta separatism, which, considering the current situation w.r.t. the United States' naked territorial ambitions, I think people should be a lot more worried about than they are.
The only infrastructure projects which should be considered right now are those that improve Canada's economic and political resilience in the face of the threat from the United States. I thought the Liberals were the party that understood that, but seems like they aren't. This HSR proposal has me reconsidering my support for the Liberals (and given my view of the other candidates in the face of the current threats to Canada, it takes a lot to do that).
Even as a political stunt I think HSR is a disaster. It's not so much that such a shower of ill-considered pork-barrel spending in "Laurentian Canada" will cost them votes in Alberta (because they're dead there anyway), but it could do something even worse, by fanning the flames of actual Alberta separatism, which, considering the current situation w.r.t. the United States' naked territorial ambitions, I think people should be a lot more worried about than they are.
The only infrastructure projects which should be considered right now are those that improve Canada's economic and political resilience in the face of the threat from the United States. I thought the Liberals were the party that understood that, but seems like they aren't. This HSR proposal has me reconsidering my support for the Liberals (and given my view of the other candidates in the face of the current threats to Canada, it takes a lot to do that).