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Pierre Poilievre opposing the $90 billion Liberal high-speed rail project has caused quite the controversy. Likely because the Laurentian Elite who loot Canadian taxpayers stand to gain BILLIONS and they want major backlash against anyone who threatens their impending goldmine of corruption. Let's do the math they don't want you to see.... The Base Cost: According to Joe Carson's "Diagnosis Red Tape," for every dollar paid in federal taxes, 26.72% never re-enters the private economy. It's consumed by bureaucracy. That means a $90B public project carries roughly $24B in administrative overhead. True taxpayer burden: ~$114B. There are roughly 20 million taxpayers in Canada. That's ~$5,700 per taxpayer, so that 12 million people in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor can have access to rail. EXCEPT THINGS NEVER GO ACCORDING TO PLAN Bent Flyvbjerg's database of 16,000+ megaprojects across 136 countries finds that 91.5% go over budget, over schedule, or both. The mean cost overrun is 62%. Rail projects specifically (according to Liberal friends McKinsey & Company) go over budget by an average of 44.7%, and their demand is overestimated by 51.4%. Applied to Alto: $114B × 1.447 = ~$165B. That's ~$8,250 per taxpayer. Meanwhile, the Liberals' projected $35B yearly GDP increase? If demand is overestimated by half, that's closer to $17B. Now, consider the recent Eglinton subway line in Toronto. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT was originally projected at ~$5B. Final cost: $13B and it took 15 years. The Eglinton Crosstown is 19km long. Alto is ~1,000km. That's 53× longer. The Eglinton Crosstown cost $684M per kilometre. If Alto hit a similar per-km cost, you'd be looking at $684B. That's obviously absurd but the point stands: Canada just proved it cannot build 19km of light rail on time or on budget. The answer is to build 1,000km of high-speed rail? The Eglinton's cost multiplied by 2.6×. Apply that same factor to Alto: $114B × 2.6 = ~$296B. That's ~$14,800 per taxpayer. But it gets EVEN WORSE. Now add corruption... The Charbonneau Commission established that mafia-linked cartels inflated Montreal public contract prices by up to 30%. A whistleblower told the Globe and Mail in 2009 that the Mafia controlled roughly 80% of road contracts, with prices inflated up to 35%. Then there's the "Green Slush Fund" scandal: the Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest at SDTC, with an estimated $150-390M in misappropriated funds. That's roughly 17-45% of the fund's total approvals funnelled to insiders. Applied to Alto's $90B base: $15-40B in corruption. Applied to the Eglinton-style $296B scenario: $50-133B in corruption. Let's summarize, shall we? Best case (on budget, on time... which never happens): ~$114B total. ~$5,700 per taxpayer. Realistic case (Flyvbjerg's average rail overrun): ~$165B total. ~$8,250 per taxpayer. With half the promised GDP benefit. Eglinton case (2.6× cost escalation): ~$296B total. ~$14,800 per taxpayer. With corruption layered on top: $15-133B more (depending on the scenario) vanishing into the pockets of the politically connected. Also, don't forget: VIA Rail, the organization that would operate this system, currently can't run its existing trains on time. And that, my friends, is how you market corruption and economic insanity as "infrastructure investment."

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What a massive take down Of CNN, man I love this…….

Canada’s ER doctors say they’re facing threats, intimidation and “administrative violence” for speaking out about dangerous overcrowding and unreported deaths — National Post

@junonewscom Ha. Her use of the word interest = Carney’s use of the word plan. Neither come to fruition which = a nothing sandwich.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada's global talent attraction strategy is generating "enormous interest," adding: "There is an amazing opportunity because we believe in research and science, while other countries are turning their back on academic freedom."

The only interest countries have is to take our best and brightest young minds to their country. You can believe in research and science as much as you want, but the genius getting taxed almost 50% on their income (not including all the other taxes) is smart enough to take their science and research elsewhere. That’s just a cold hard fact. The brain drain in Canada only continues to get worse under the poor leadership of the Liberal government.

Mélanie Joly says there's "enormous amount of interest" in Canada's global talent attraction strategy: "There is an amazing opportunity because we believe in research and we believe in science while other countries are turning their back on academic freedom."

@MarcNixon24 Gotta love the hive mentality the left has. They do not know how to think for themselves. They do what they are told to do. The “useful idiots” are real and in full force. Individuality does not exist in their world.

The Liberals are attacking the Food Professor after 25 years of writing La Presse. They suspends his column after critiquing the media. Will you let the LIBERALS cancel the Food Professor? FOLLOW HIM… Let’s blow his account up. ⬆️ 1 million subs

@mario4thenorth Well when our government idolizes countries like China, what do we expect?

🚨 INSANE. Dr. Charlebois wrote over 1,000 columns for La Presse. For FREE. He was never paid a single dollar. He even paid THEM through a personal subscription. Then he posted on X questioning government subsidies for media. La Presse, a paper whose newsroom wages are almost entirely covered by federal and provincial tax credits SUSPENDED HIM INDEFINITELY. A paper that took $1.6M from Google’s government-mandated fund. A paper that posted a $9 MILLION profit in 2025 thanks to those subsidies. You can’t make this up. He questioned the money. And the money silenced him. THIS IS THE STATE OF CANADIAN MEDIA.

@VoyceReason What an idiotic post

Cons: "GAS PRICES ARE INSANE!!!" 🇨🇦: "We'll help by building high speed rail". Cons: "NOOO!!!" 🇨🇦: "OK. Let's build out our EV infrastructure and start moving away from gas dependence." Cons: "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Meanwhile, they want to cut gas taxes that pay for road improvements.

‼️NEW - POILIEVRE LISTS ALL OF THE TAXES ON CANADIAN FUEL "They make MORE money from you when gas prices go up -- there's a tax ON the other taxes!" Calls for SUSPENSION of all fuel taxes for 2026 "Do it by cutting handouts to fake refugees...."

Remember when BC Ferries built those three aluminum-hulled PacifiClass High Speed(Fast Cat) ferries that were supposed to bring transportation into the new age? Proposed budget was $210M. Actual budget was $450M and 3 years late. Then became a colossal failure by being overweight, slower than projected, paint peeling off, too expensive to operate and couldn't operate in most terminals. They refused to listen to their expert engineers who worked on their vessels when they said it wouldn't work. They ended up being decommissioned a few years later and sold for $20M. This is the largest example of provincial mismanagement and cost overruns in BC history. Now imagine a $90BILLION dollar train system when Toronto can't even keep the Go Train running.

@FoodProfessor @ThevoiceAlexa Unfortunately too many people still think our media and government are independent of each other. In recent years that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Some personal news to share. My regular column with La Presse has been suspended indefinitely this week, after 25 years and more than 1,000 columns. This was not my decision. The decision is linked to recent public comments I made on social media regarding the evolving media landscape in Canada, including reflections on government support for media and its potential implications. I understand that these are sensitive and complex issues, and my remarks may not have aligned with the publication’s perspective. While I am disappointed, I fully respect their decision and remain grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to contribute over the years. I would also like to note that my contributions were always made on a voluntary basis. I was never compensated for my columns, and have personally supported La Presse through a paid subscription throughout that time. It has truly been a privilege to write for such an important institution. I continue to believe that open, thoughtful discussions about the future of media in Canada are both necessary and healthy.

BREAKING The Food Professor (Sylvain Charlebois) has been SUSPENDED from writing his weekly column in LaPresse after 25 years (it was a volunteer role) because he CRITICIZED government funded journalism on social media. This is what happens when you challenge the cartel.

@mapleblooded 💯

@JasonUrness See this is what I’m focusing on. Jeremy Hansen represents the best of us. He’s the total opposite of the miserable and selfish boomers who fantasize about defending the Peace Bridge against an American invasion while they burn the country down themselves.

I like this. It makes me proud of Canada. Jeremy Hansen has balls of steel.

Pierre Poilievre is on 🔥🔥🔥 NO MORE GAS TAXES LFG x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@MarioNawfal You do know he has an entire social media team right? Or are you just that stunned?

🚨🇺🇸 The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen. Called him a dried up prune. Insulted his plastic surgeon. Told his supporters to boycott concerts that "suck." Somewhere a CENTCOM briefing is waiting. Somewhere four astronauts are floating toward the Moon. Somewhere oil traders are checking $108 on their screens. And Trump had the nerves.

@VoyceReason Oh it’s just Pierre that speaking out against this is it? Could you be more ignorant and uniformed?

For perspective, Uzbekistan has had a 600km HIGH SPEED RAIL connection between its two largest cities for 15 YEARS now. UZBEKISTAN. The distance between Montréal and Toronto is about 540km. But Pierre Poilievre thinks it's just too big for 🇨🇦 to handle? share.google/8kjPfxjOPgPNbL…

The question to ask is, why can’t the government build anything without giving hand outs to their friends? Why do they have to defraud the Canadian tax payer on any project they attempt? Why are they always over budget? Why are they never finished on time? The insiders get rich and the tax payers pay more tax. That is why it is not common sense.

High-speed rail connecting the Montreal-Windsor corridor is the most common sense infrastructure investment imaginable. If the federal government can't build railways in 2026, what's even the point?

@MrJoKeR604 You really do say some stupid 💩

Look at puny American next to maple syrup guzzling, poutine eating, Canada goose fighting, Canadian