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@JefferyParkins2 @_Renazance @JigglyPants44 Because it’s stupidly expensive and make zero economic sense.

@Rod85928236 @_Renazance @JigglyPants44 Then why hate high speed rail?

I had no idea that Maple MAGA have so many high speed rail experts in their ranks

@JefferyParkins2 @_Renazance @JigglyPants44 I don’t care if I see them or not.

@Rod85928236 @_Renazance @JigglyPants44 Are you against all public works because you won't get to see them?

@JeffreyLuscombe I know people who drive to the states to buy milk and eggs? You obviously don’t live close to the border.

Again , no Canadian I know would touch American dairy with a ten-foot pole. Even before the boycott. 🤷🏻‍♂️😆

@TPS_32Planner @PierrePoilievre Great, why don’t you 35% of Canadians who live in southern Quebec and Ontario pay for it and leave the rest of us out of it?

It's bizarre that @PierrePoilievre and his supporters are standing in the way of a long overdue project that will bring modern, clean, quiet, and fast train service to the southern Ontario, and southern Quebec corridors, where upwards of 35% of Canadians live.

@JefferyParkins2 @_Renazance @JigglyPants44 I’m sure there are. The question is why should those of us who will never even see this train pay you for them?

@_Renazance @JigglyPants44 Currently helping to build a LRT, lots of good jobs in building Transit systems.

@PoliticsFan2005 @JigglyPants44 Then go out and invest in it. Leave the rest of us alone please.

@JigglyPants44 High speed rail has been a success in every country that has it. Reduced travel times, emissions. If Maple MAGA got around more or did more research, they'd realize this...

@JigglyPants44 Why don’t all you HSR experts band together and invest in this amazing opportunity? You can charge us all a fee to ride on your shiny new train. You’ll make a fortune!

@JigglyPants44 It’s amazing how many people do not understand how much money $90,000,000,000.00 is.

@LiberCanuck @JcookeJeff It’s amazing how clueless these people are. They’ve obviously never traded anything, they seem to have no idea how the actually works.

@JcookeJeff wtf. The bond market dictates most rates, you can’t just lower them you idiot.

Why does the government have to drop their taxes off gas? Why can the oil companies just drop their prices? Taxes buy Canadians things but oil company billion dollar profits doesn't do anything for us.

@JcookeJeff @alleria_eh People who don’t understand markets are fascinating to me. Are you really that clueless that you don’t understand? I guess you must be.

@alleria_eh Same goes for banks, you want to make life more affordable, get banks to lower their rates.

@alleria_eh The people who sell you gas, buy the cheapest oil they can find. There is a bid/ask for it by the second. The company who sells it accepts whatever bids are out there.

@foolishyangban @ConorJarratt It’s an old idea. You leave it up o To private citizens to risk their own dollars to build things instead of forcing us to spend our money. We used to call that free market capitalism.

@foolishyangban @ConorJarratt Pipelines aren’t paid for by tax dollars. They are paid for by investors seeking to make a return.

HSR would allow people in Ottawa to take jobs in Toronto and vice versa. Same for Montreal and Ottawa (<1 hr). No traffic, predictable schedules. You could also catch hockey, baseball, and basketball games without booking accommodations!

@TobyJoyce14 @Electroversenet James Hansen is a climate scientist, he is not a member of the media.

@Electroversenet Deniers love pretending the media are climate scientists.

Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free within 10 years. The trouble is they said the exact same thing 16 years ago. The prediction changed, but the panic stayed the same. This is always the play... Al Gore said the North Pole could be ice-free by 2013. Professor Peter Wadhams warned it would lose its summer ice by 2016. While NASA's James Hansen said by 2018. The list goes on and on. But in reality, satellite data show late summer ice still covers millions of square kilometers with no documented trend for 18 years. Every few years, the timeline resets. The apocalypse is always just "10-or-so" years away.

@Electroversenet It’s not like an ice free Arctic would be an apocalypse, it has been ice free many times

@bruceanderson I would rather be the 51st state!!!

Canada in the EU? Most Canadians think it's an idea worth exploring. open.substack.com/pub/bruce728/p…

@ZontarAlt It could but it won’t

Fun fact: the maximum capacity of the HSR line would allow for it to move 120 times as many people between Montreal and Toronto as air is capable of before needing a relief line.

@foolishyangban Oh wow that’s totally worth $90,000,000,000.00.

@SKivimaa @RyanGassn It’s called “magical thinking” Shawn. People know it’s technically possible to do and that’s all they need to get behind it. No cost/benefit no risk/reward just do it because technically you can and it sounds good.

Carbon capture is a process whereby CO2 is chemically separated from flue gasses created from the burning of hydrocarbons. The most common method is amine stripping. The CO2 gas is then used for various industrial applications, or stored underground (CCUS). The process is extremely polluting and expensive, emitting dangerous gases including ammonia, volatile amines, aldehydes and many more. It is a dangerous process to both plant workers and local residents. Currently less than 0.2% of the CO2 emissions in the world are captured and stored. Yet despite the dangerous pollution and uneconomic costs, various pundits and green energy shysters still want to burden Alberta with CCUS. PM Carney’s favoured firms Atkins Real and Brookfield are well-positioned to take advantage of government mandated CCUS. Though that is redundant, since no private corporation would consider something as dangerous and pointless as CO2 capture without huge subsidies. Besides the inherent flaws associated with CCUS, we must ask the question: why can we not sequester carbon the natural way, via the planting of trees and the nurturing of forests and wetlands? Former PM Trudeau broke his promise to plant 2 billion trees, presumably because corporate elites can’t get richer with trees. No, they need expensive industrial technologies that make shareholders money. Why is the dangerous pollution and extreme cost of carbon capture never discussed by its proponents?

@jean_carleton @JonFraserTF If Quebec separates then they can do whatever they like.

@Rod85928236 @JonFraserTF Who the fuck are you, Rod?

Croyez-vous qu'un Québec indépendant aurait toujours besoin de lois linguistiques pour protéger le français ? #polqc #assnat #paysqc