30 Replies to “A Broken Canada”

  1. It appears that the Canadian gummint has joined the US gummint in having no individual accountability for misfeasance, malfeasance, incompetence and maybe even outright corruption.

  2. It’s Toronto. I lived there once long ago. Never again will I enter that horrible area. When armed invaders arrive to ravage Canada let them be met with signs implanted in the ground pleading “Take Toronto first!! PLEASE!!!”.

    1. Raze it, and let the smouldering ashes sting our eyes as a remembrance.

  4. At the rate the eglington LRT is going, the western extension will be done before the main portion of it goes into service…

    The other question that should be answered is why they can’t put parts of it that are done into service, even if the whole thing isn’t ready to go

  5. The people capable of building things are dead and buried, replaced by “New Canadians” who came from cultures unable to build anything. Is it really a surprise that this is the result?

  6. The Canadian Way.

    Check out:

    “It is a thought experiment that could just as easily be applied to the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program — the 15 warships that are set to be built in Halifax but which are already years behind schedule and are massively over budget.

    But the Canadian frigates have gone from being interoperable to being interchangeable, with the U.S. controlling the intellectual property.

    In that case, why not buy the U.S. navy’s Constellation-class guided-missile frigate off the shelf, for one-third of the price the Canadian taxpayer is likely to pay?

    The U.S. paid a fixed price of about US$1.66 billion a ship; using the Parliamentary Budget Office’s latest estimate, Canada will pay up to $5.6 billion per ship.

    The government has just handed Irving Shipbuilding an additional $463 million to adapt its shipyard to build a frigate whose final weight is, in the words of DND, “evolving, as the design matures.”

    DND says its cost estimate remains $50-60 billion, but conceded in a statement to National Post that “given the inherent complexities … cost estimate revisions are expected.” One thing is certain, they won’t be coming down.”

    And.

    “The government is in the midst of a defence policy review and has committed to buying 88 F-35 fighter jets, the 15 frigates and enhancing Norad.

    But it is extremely doubtful that there is enough money in the fiscal framework to pay for it all — the 2018 20-year spending plan allocated $108 billion on an accrual basis (costed over the lifespan of the asset) or $164 billion on a cash basis, while the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the warships alone could cost $85 billion.

    The Liberal government has now asked the military to reduce its spending by $900 million over the next four years.

    The chief of the defence staff, Wayne Eyre, says there’s no way to do that without it having an impact on an organization that is already stretched too thin, with around 16,000 positions still unfilled.”

  7. You know.. With politicians involved you dig half a hole and leave a eyesore with the politicians name on it.. You have two choices.. Either fill it in and admit failure if no political opposition exists or push it away and dump more extortion money into it in the hope of getting reelected..

    I smell blood.. The longer the project languishes.. The deeper the investment the more grifters want a piece.. A sitting duck with a open wallet.. We call this progress..

    FFS.. Putting rail through a developed area is going to piss people off.. Do what has to be done as quick as possible and let the successful project heal the wounds.. I call this progress..

    1. Had the whole thing been underground, and fully using a TBM, then the only disruptive portion would be building the stations…

      Instead, they failed to learn from the St Clair LRT project, and instead using a mixture of cut and cover, and above ground construction which seems to be for the sole purpose of causing as much chaos as possible for the duration of the project.

      1. If it can’t disrupt car usage it’s not a success. You have to understand what the ACTUAL goal of LRT projects are – both during the build and when up and running.

        RNrn

        1. they can do that just as well by installing bike lanes on bloor street, turning it from a 2 lane in each direction feeder road, into a single lane in each direction traffic jam. Miller’s war on the car never ended.

  8. Canadian defense?.. Obviously we could use Americas decommissioned equipment and save a ton of money.. The next best thing sort of thing.. But where is the jobs and the investments and the graft?..

    Funny thing about military spending.. Value for your money?.. Winning or losing a war never triggers an audit..

  9. L – The GTA, the Greater Toronto Area to be renamed:
    A). the Lesser Toronto Area?
    B). the Loser Toronto Area?
    C). One of the 9 Circles of Hell?
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    “I’m referring to the construction of the $12-billion Eglinton-Crosstown LRT, now more than $500-million over budget and three years behind.

    The 19-km line, which has been under construction for 12 years, has been mired in lawsuits by the consortium Crosslinx Transit Solutions, quality control issues, incompetence, and most especially a complete and utter lack of oversight and accountability by the Ontario agency responsible for the build, Metrolinx.”

  10. We had to drive up to Toronto last spring. We thought early Sunday evening would be a good time to arrive. What a nightmare on the highway! Bumper to bumper traffic barely moving from Hamilton all the way into the city. Dirty and ugly to boot.

  11. Panama City built their whole 23 mile subway in less than 5 years and is on track to build another 40 miles by 2030. Maybe we need some developing world planners and engineers to show us how it’s done.

  12. While in Shanghai a few years ago they had 5 subways under construction along with roads. There is one man in charge of the entire country for this type of infrastructure. Amazing to see how quickly and well these things are built in China.

  13. The country is Broken.

    Led by a PM who throughout his life has been wined, praised and honored for no reason other than his father’s name.

    Unaccomplished, and dull witted the country has never had a person so manifestly incompetent leading it.

    What other result could you reasonably expect from such a person leading?

  14. Further to the “aim of practical politics” is this: Promise, announce, plan, consult, bring in task forces, working groups and steering committees to analyze how to spend the taxes collected for “infrastructure” while failing to build anything, in fact using all your energy to not build anything, while posting massive and unsustainable deficits.

    Like buying a pipeline company in order to stop the building of pipelines.

    ARC – always recycle promises.

    With, of course, no intention of keeping them in the first place, there’s no harm done.
    I just wonder if this idea is connected to the reality four out every five voters want this government gone?

    Sarcasm off.

  15. There’s nothing unique about this. Ottawa had exactly the same thing happen to the Ottawa LRT. Levy is wrong. It’s really not about the provincial government. It has to pony up the cash. In both cases it’s incompetent city government. Look to the Mayor’s office, the City Manager and the transit authority as to where the responsibility lies. Blaming Ford is just lazy. This shambles was created by John Tory and his gang of nitwits at TTC and Metrolinx. It will not get any better ever as long as Olivia is Mayor.

  16. Yup. You can’t build a plug for a hobby-horse’s arse nowadays without getting strangled in red tape.

  18. Remember.
    This is a gubermt that is more afraid of the 87000 AR platform rifles out there in civie hands.
    they still dont have more than 5000 of the Browning HP pistol replacements.
    And noone will enlist anyway.

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