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@MikeHall2018 @sarobertsonca Yeah, I don't know if you just crawled out of your mother's basement but it has been a key objective of the US government to move all car manufacturing to the US. Chew on that while you complain about EV's while gas prices are sensitive to any conflict in the world.

@sarobertsonca The end of our Auto Manuf'g Industry... and all at the behest of Marx Carney. That along with the other disastrous plan to stick with eVs (insane restrictions on ICE autos) and flying in the face of USA manuf's free hand, Canada is scoring MASSIVE own goals! Wake up folks!

Lana Payne on Stellantis building Chinese EVs in Brampton: "Generally the cars get built in China, they get taken apart into a couple of parts, and those parts get moved to facilities around the world, and then they get put together. It's called a knockdown kit, and it's not manufacturing."

@WBrettWilson If it was built in Alberta, it would be fueled by coal and slide along on a bed of leaky crude oil. Just to own the Libs. 🙄

Anyone wonder why a high speed train plan needs to go Montreal to Quebec and be paid for by all Canadians? Anyone wonder why feds aren’t pumping a high speed train between 2 of Canada’s largest city’s that are less than 300k apart & run past 2 huge international airports? Darn

@tsxir @WBrettWilson Ah, yes. That brilliant and cost effective "hyperloop". disconnect.blog/the-hyperloop-…

@WBrettWilson I would rather they develop some form of hyperloop if anything. Bring in the tech builders of today!

@Wino_Winnie Her cross isn't big enough!

Pam Bondi is out as AG I’m thinking Alina Habba.

@JJL_Sports @MichaelFordTO I guess Woodbine Entertainment is Jonesing for some of those sweet, sweet Ford Bucks.

@MichaelFordTO Hi Michael, thank you for everything you have accomplished for our community and the Province. Wishing you the very best in your next chapter. Jim

Please see my full statement below on not seeking re-election in the upcoming provincial election:

@MichaelFordTO I guess uncle Dougie found you a better paying job that your are equally unqualified for. Perhaps working with your cousin Kara? My guess is basket weaving courses only pay if your last name is Ford. torontolife.com/city/people-ar…

@mattybing I guess uncle Dougie found him a better paying job that he is equally unqualified for.

NEW: Michael Ford tells me after considering jumping into the race this fall, he's decided against a run to be Toronto's mayor. "I will remain very active in the city that I love and lend my support in whichever way makes Toronto a more safe, affordable and world class city."

@elie_mcn Wow! Everyone is now a freakin' railway expert. Must be nice to just look at a map and say "yeah, this looks good" without any further context, analysis or even understanding of what is required for HSR.

There is a railway that is effectively a straight line from Toronto to Montreal. Shown in BLUE. Building high speed rail along it would make sense. Instead, the Liberals propose a boondoggle of a line, shown in RED, that goes through all these communities they need to win.

@richard_ll79630 @dubsndoo BS. I'd take the slow train to Ottawa all the time. Factor in travel time to airports, security clearance, various wait times and sitting in a noisy, cramped tube, the train was just as quick and I could get a lot of work done while in transit (fast Wifi, table, leg room).

@dubsndoo Very few will ride it from end to end -- and taking an airplane would have gotten them there faster. Most trips would be shorter, and driving would be faster and more convenient. Especially when you factor in travelling to and from the stations.

How many seats will be on that train? There’s your answer about how many people will actually use it. Regular usage will be a couple of thousand tops.

@StevenBartlett You gotta be joking. PP is nothing but a useless, whiny turd who has nothing positive to offer other than negativity and greasing oil and gas executives palms. Not a shred of humanity behind the spray tan, spanx and squinty little eyes.

Could this be the next Prime Minister of Canada? Recently, I’ve been finding myself up all night trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the world and if we're on the verge of World War III… So, today I’m sitting down with Pierre Poilievre who is the leader of Canada's Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition. He became one of the youngest MPs elected to Canadian parliament and has spent 2 decades fighting for working class people and fair opportunities. Pierre told me that he’s on a mission to make Canada the freest and most affordable place in the world, and he’s not stopping until that happens. To give you more context on his background, Pierre was adopted at birth by two school teachers who struggled financially and ended up losing multiple homes which meant that they had to start again from nothing several times throughout his childhood. That experience shaped what he believes about work, money, and fairness. When speaking about his parents, he told me that they taught him that it doesn’t matter where you come from. It matters what you do. That belief is now at the centre of everything he’s trying to change.

@DarrenF12280821 @dubsndoo Wrong guy. It's Doug Ford that was pushing for a monorail.

@dubsndoo Straight out of the Simpsons. Monorail.

Canada can’t even build low speed passenger rail that services most of the country. In fact you can’t even ride a Greyhound bus in western Canada. This Liberal wet dream is the dumbest idea they ever come up with.

@dubsndoo Is there some sort of coded trigger in PP's blinking eyes that activates his army of zombies to suddenly become experts in whatever he is "against" (i.e. everything but pipelines)? It's kind of pathetic, especially when you call everyone else sheep.

@Smileyyeg Spend two minutes looking it up and stop asking stupid questions to people who know less than you. cdhowe.org/publication/th…

That train will never even make its money back, let alone provide the hundreds of billions of dollars of economic benefits it would need to justify itself. Actually think about it: is there even an economic benefit at all? How much time will it save how many people?

@blaa_blah_blah @dubsndoo There are 46 flights from Toronto to Montreal each day, hourly flights to Ottawa from Toronto, up to 9 flights between Montreal and Ottawa and 5 flights from Montreal to Quebec and the same for Toronto to Quebec. So that's about 65 flights between these cities.

@dubsndoo Imagine thinking that all $19M people living in that region will be doing back and forths between quebec and toronto on a regular basis. They'd be lucky to get a trip every couple of years for most people.

A lot of Liberal muppets on here are saying that high speed rail would *service* 19 million people. Let’s be serious for a moment; what would the expected ridership be? It would be a small portion of that number that would use the train on a regular basis.

@networthy @dubsndoo Oh yeah. High speed rail to Grimsby. I think you are really on to something! 🤦

@dubsndoo If the idea was to support ridership, the Montreal to Quebec line would be nixed. The most effective would have Toronto connected with Niagara, perhaps ending in Grimsby. But we need to appease Quebec as always.

@MaureenJ4992 @DawnTJ90 @McLeanChronicle Steel and aluminum plants now run on electricity. Hydro electric, wind power and nuclear don't look like this. Time to embrace domestic, renewable energy projects.

@Procruste3 @DawnTJ90 @McLeanChronicle Well, lets think a moment this is required to build and run these turbines.

🍁 Whitehorse Yukon Canada 🇨🇦 $30,000,000 Wind Turbine Facility Generating 0kW ⚡️ 🥴 Wind 2.1m/s (6.9mph) April 1/26 10am

@MaureenJ4992 @DawnTJ90 @McLeanChronicle Nothing compares to the majestic beauty of the giant, shining columns of an oil refinery.

What an eyesore😡😡😡😡I have to drive through one to get home, the icky feeling driving through this blight on humanity is beyond pale. I can see these rusted monsters idly standing waiting to go to their non-recycled grave yard or left standing to rot. Their usefulness a stark reminder of woke ideology which will be studied one day for what it did to generations.

@Saskgirl3252 @Duss88 @TamaraUgo Glad it worked out for you. This doesn't mean your experience is the same for everyone.

@Procruste3 @Duss88 @TamaraUgo No one takes your land, we have pipelines on our property. We are paid for access. We farm it, you dont even know its there.

At a rural farm in Indian River earlier today, I asked Poilievre for his reaction to Bill C-15, which assists the Liberals in expropriating land for the $90 billion ALTO high-speed rail project "Your private property is not safe under this Liberal government," he replied, pointing to the Cowichan Tribes ruling in BC Full report to come!

@AndreiManko @Smileyyeg CD Howe seems to think it is a good economic idea. cdhowe.org/publication/al…

@Smileyyeg Question - is there a strong economic need to enhance the travel between TOR/MON/QC/OTT? I have no issues with a high speed rail line if: -There's a market -There's a strong ROI -It's done by Private Corporations or as a PPP. -Taxpayer cost is minimized -Minimize Govt Waste

It is not. It is a European thing not really suitable to Canada.

@dubsndoo Fortunately, we have real experts who can forecast economic impacts. cdhowe.org/publication/al…

Look, I get the argument for building high speed rail in a country like Japan where 125 million people are crammed into a country no bigger than Montana, but to build one that would only service a few million people in the Toronto Montreal corridor is clearly insane.