John Knotek
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John Knotek
@johnknotek
Eliminating payment pain points, active in #fintech #insurtech and P&C Insurance Industry.
Toronto, Canada Katılım Temmuz 2010
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@JeffreyLuscombe Horseshit. Traffic is down what 30%. Seems to be a majority disagree and continue to go. The US is awesome (not perfect and neither is Canada) and the Us always will be a strategic trading partner. Current administration will not be there forever remember.
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And hear this… Canadians aren’t coming back to the US anytime soon! Fill your own lousy hotels, restaurants and parks with your own citizens. In other words, fuck the USA. 😆🤷🏻♂️🇨🇦
Polling Canada@CanadianPolling
70% of Canadians say they're less likely to travel to the US in 2026, according to Leger
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Carney is doing the same in Canada !
Coinvo@Coinvo
CRAZY: 🇩🇪 Ex-Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted she opened Germany's borders to mass migration to "prevent the far right from gaining power."
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Bryan, I'm sure you're a nice guy. But honestly. You are very poorly informed if you think Ottawa did Alberta a favour by paying for TMX with OUR MONEY. Kinder Morgan would have built it themselves if not for endless obstruction from Trudeau and BC.
Bryan Avison@bryan_avison
@lamphieryeg Canada population denisty is 4 people per square km. However, 70%.of Canadians live below the 49th Parallel. 50% live below 45.7N latitude. This concentration of people is comparable to western Europe. Dont forget, These Canadians paid for the >$21B TMX Pipeline
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Have Canadians become to complacent that we actually think the only way anything can get done in this country is if the government is involved?
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I went to grab a coffee this morning.
A guy in front of me orders an Americano.
Cashier calls out:
“12oz Canadiano ☕🇨🇦”
When it was my turn, I smiled:
“I’ll take a Canadiano too.”
Btw, that's cool
She grinned:
“You know it.”
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@TheChaosWeeber Colossal waste of time and money. Think bigger. Imagine a fleet of 100,000 self driving EVs at 10% of the cost but same capacity.
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I despise wha Pierre has done to the high speed rail debate in Canada.
This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It’s a project that will change Canada for the better.
Majority of those opposed have never even used high speed rail before.
Video from Shinkansen in February
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'Canadian engineers are some of the world’s best at building both hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants, and $90 billion could realistically pepper the country with new power plants'
nationalpost.com/opinion/what-c…
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Wouldn’t insuring that Canadians have a reliable source of electricity be more important than building a singular fast train that services a geographically tiny region of the country?
National Post@nationalpost
'Canadian engineers are some of the world’s best at building both hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants, and $90 billion could realistically pepper the country with new power plants' nationalpost.com/opinion/what-c…
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Opposing spending $90 billion is not "NIMBYism".
Remember when the Liberals purchased the Trans-Mountain pipeline to expand it?
$4.5 billion for the pipeline. $7 billion estimate expansion cost.
Actual cost as of 2024? $34 billion.
You can support the idea of high-speed rail without supporting your tax dollars going to total incompetents to handle the project.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Michele Cadario on Pierre Poilievre's opposition to the Alto rail line: "It's quite ironic that he's now the king of NIMBYism."
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Ford Drank Carney's Water Last Week & Went Full Carney Fart Catcher
Doug Ford drank from Prime Minister Carney's Water Glass at the Housing Announcement last week & became a BIGGER Carney Ass Kisser than ever
What magic exists in Carney's spit?
Or was Doug always a Liberal?
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
Doug Ford praises Mark Carney and appeals for a majority Liberal government ahead of byelections trib.al/qZVqOeu
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I’d have no problem with building high speed rail if the country wasn’t buried in a mountain of debt, and the govt. had attempted to get private enterprise to at least share most of the cost.
Without Diminishment@WDiminishment
Kieran Wilson: The Conservatives should back high-speed rail "Now is not the time for train-timid Toryism." withoutdiminishment.com/p/the-conserva…
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@marissenmark Remind me again of the population of Japan. Anything within 10 million is fine.
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I just came back from a trip to Japan.
The Japanese could figure out how to provide their citizens high speed rail.
There’s no reason why we can’t.
Don’t let Pierre Poilievre deny Canadians high speed rail.
If we need help and advice from the Japanese, let’s get it.
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💥STOP AND THINK ABOUT *HOW BAD* THIS HIGH SPEED RAIL PROJECT IS GOING TO BE.💥
$3.6 BILLION (with a ‘B’) has already been spent and not a single shovel has gone in the ground.
This has EPIC disaster and money laundering written all over it.
BUT HEY, IT’S THE LIBERALS - OF COURSE THIS MAKES SENSE!!
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱@ryangerritsen
The Government started talking about the high speed rail in 1984. From 84 to 2010 almost $600,000,000 was spent on studies. Since 2020 over $4 billion has been spent on planning. Nothing is built. Not a single line of track. This is an epic boondoggle
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Andrew Scheer gives a rambling answer about why taking people's land isn't a problem when the project is a pipeline.
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The CEO of a major engineering / infrastructure firm that operates all over the world would disagree with your ignorant take. 😉
Ashwin@Ash_IWN
The metro populations of Madrid and Barcelona are similar to Toronto and Montreal and are further away. They started building high speed rail ages ago. Ignorant take
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You absolutely do need to show an economic gain for a $100B project.
I think the biggest part of the problem is that Canadians do not understand money at all. They have no idea what that amount is to us, how much opportunity cost there is here.
Ryder Côté@wreck_it_ryder
@Smileyyeg Not every investment by the government needs to be for economic benefit… it’s a quality of life investment that will affect millions and have environmental benefits too. The 401 is the busiest highway in North America, a lot of our good travel that corridor. It lightens traffic!
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This looks like a glowing success compared to what the Alto debacle would be.
60 Minutes@60Minutes
An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco hasn’t stayed on track. 60 Minutes reports on the costly struggle to bring high-speed rail to the United States, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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For the Bloc to oppose a rail project, a good portion of which is set to be in Quebec (for purely political reasons), it must be a pretty bad project.
The $90B Alto is a disaster in the making.
Plans should be scrapped, and redrawn as a simple Toronto to Montreal line.
The Real Mr Bench@therealmrbench
Blanchet won’t support the Liberal high-speed rail plan as it stands in Quebec. Citing property seizures and government overreach. Poilievre says no → media outrage. Blanchet says no → little mention. Same project. Different rules.
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Michele Cadario on Pierre Poilievre's opposition to the Alto rail line: "It's quite ironic that he's now the king of NIMBYism."
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