Fergus MacLoud

@TheReclamare Yeah the one room schools with wood heaters were nice too....

Settlers cabin in Alberta, 1921 Look at their privilege

@acoyne @PaolaQP1231

I think their advice would be: Cram 120 million people into an area slightly smaller than Newfoundland. Put 93 per cent of them in cities. Even in the Quebec-Windsor corridor, population density is a fraction of Japan's; the economics of high-speed rail are accordingly a little different.

To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him: I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me. I live in the part of the country your map forgets. About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train. I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian. I heat my home with rising costs. I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck. I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance. And you want me to pay for a train I will never use. How thoughtful. I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch. It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City. Seven stops. All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec. Top speed, 300 km/h. National reach? Let’s just call it selective. I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice. Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household. For a ticket I will never hold. From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel. Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me. I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train. Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it. I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian. I am fixing my own road access. Paying more for groceries. Driving farther for basic services. And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail. At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries. No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability. I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed. I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can. I am a rural Canadian watching how this works. Not on my land. Not this time. But close enough to understand the mechanism. Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely. It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose. Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities. I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent. Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after. It is not my yard today. But it is someone’s. And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger. Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait. I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda. And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared. I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names. And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history. A remarkable comeback. Truly. No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity. Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern. I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding. The script is the same. Only the cover has changed. I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch. I am told it will create 50,000 jobs. I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP. And I am sure it will. In the corridor. Where the stations are. Where the density is. Where the benefit is. I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome. Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access. I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates. I am the depleted Canadian who: Reads grocery receipts like an audit. Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans. Measures distance in cost, not kilometres. I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian. Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit. I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement. The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional. I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian. You’re not building this for me or my family. You're just sending me the bill. Signed, Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream, Melanie in Saskatchewan

@THudson59618056 @PierrePoilievre Then go get a better job, quit whining

The biggest irritant is when he says just go out, get a speech therapist, we have a nest egg for her. Us parents of autistic kids don't have that privilege you do. Ironically yours came from taxpayers, us taxpayers have a MUCH harder time gaining resources @PierrePoilievre

@TheChaosWeeber And we never will, we don't live in that tiny corridor, retard why the fuck should my money pay for it?

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

So, you sleep in?

Hey stupid fuck, there is a month to go still in signature collection. Cry more

You people...

@JeremyMacKenzi @SoapBoxGuns @druidess157 You, my small peckered "friend", are a rat Fed loser...

@SoapBoxGuns @druidess157 Why? So they can talk about how they've done nothing but lose, mislead Canadians and vote farm support for the israeli-conservative party ?

CCFR on Rogan would be great. Gotta get outside the MSM for the truth of the gun confiscation to be heard.

@petamocto @erik_thorvalds Yet always liberal strongholds. You should all move west...

@erik_thorvalds I hate these maps. There are more conservative voters in the GTA than all of Alberta. Northern Ontario has even more. The red area in this map has more conservative voters than all other colours combined.

This is the future of Canada: Alberta leaves. Québec as well. Saskatchewan follows. The NWT joins Alberta. Yukon too. Nunavut follows. Rural BC chooses Alberta. Vancouver chooses Singapore option. Newfoundland remembers they used to be a country and that they have oil. A weakened and obsolete Canadian rump state remains.

"Education"

@yegwave Police are barely enforcing any laws.....

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says it’s “regrettable” that Alberta is defying the Liberals’ gun measures, adding it’s “not optional” for police to enforce those laws.

@VoyceReason How the fuck does that train help the other 30 million Canadians? Can a plumber ride it with all his tools? Retard. Ontario and Quebec can do it themselves. They benefit...

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.

How to kill your credibility....

@brent_bellamy Oh for fuck sakes. I live on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere....

For 15 years, Canadians have overwhelmingly purchased large SUV’s and pickup trucks knowing the price of gas will always increase and be volatile. Maybe instead of subsiding that, we invest in public transit so people have the option to not drive everywhere for everything.

elbows uP, Canada S tRonk!!

@BertaBSDetector Explain why taxpayers outside Ont and Quebec should give a shit...

Poilievre: "Let's build Canada!" Canada: "High Speed Rail?" Poilievre: "No. We can't afford it."

@naturally_zo @acoyne Pipelines go under land. My farm has several. Can't see them....

@acoyne Gimme a break. A decent Leader of the Opposition would suggest alternatives or solutions, but all he does is stomp his feet and yell No! Then he rambles on about expropriated land, as if his precious pipelines don't expropriate land. Conservatives hate change, and it shows.

This is courageous and right.

@GurvSC @acoyne Try 300. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) was originally projected to cost $5.4 billion (CAD) when proposed by Kinder Morgan in 2013. Following the federal government's acquisition of the project in 2018, the final construction cost skyrocketed to over $34 billion

@acoyne We simply can’t afford to spend $90 billion right now and realistically it probably upwards of $100 billion. Thats $4k per taxpayer.

@LostJoshPython @acoyne Explain how a train in a tiny part if 2 provinces is in the west's interest, or the maritime?

@acoyne It’s cowardly and wrong. It’s a much needed investment in Canada. The courageous thing would be to propose an alternative or help make sure it’s stays on budget. Saying ‘no’ to everything isn’t brave. Modern conservative would vote against the Trans-Canada Highway…