I Want A New Country

Alternative Subsidy Gradually Then Suddenly New Governor Western Separatism 39 Comments

“$9,000 for every single Canadian family of four across the country”

Construction of regional high speed rail is a $90 billion catastrophe for taxpayers, says an MP whose constituency is on the route. Conservative MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Frontenac, Ont.) yesterday warned of “ruined lives” and wasted billions as the Commons passed the High Speed Rail Network Act: ‘Why on earth should people in British Columbia, Alberta or Newfoundland pay for this?’

39 Replies to “I Want A New Country”

  1. Only an abject financial moron would ever invest a single dollar into Canada. Canada is the place where investment goes to die. It seems that investing the taxpayers dollar into a more profitable market would be the prudent thing to do. The problem is not the optics of where this money is getting invested, its the absolutely mentally retarded weakling socialist commie unionized mindset of the average Canadian and how they destroyed their own country. Canadians are lazy. Canadians are terrified of money. Canadians and Canada are a bad investment.

  2. FILTHY LIBERALS..
    We Snow Mexicans don’t build ANYTHING.
    WE ASSEMBLE. This is our future. No Plants just parts.

    Meanwhile Mexicans are investing in Factories, Mills, and building things. We are doing everything wrong to piss off our American Cousins.
    I HATE THIS COUNTRY AND ALL THE FILTHY LIBERALS IN IT.

    1. We used to build things and not just assembly for foreign companies. Early last century, electric cars were built in New Brunswick and Mclaughlin cars were built in Ontario and were bought up by Buick.
      On the west coast, Pacific trucks built some of the best logging trucks. In Quebec, there is Prevost highway coaches, in Manitoba they have New Flyer Industries. Bombardier and BRP.
      We can build and innovate, but ‘we’ seem to fail at some point repeatedly or sell out for the payday.
      We had RIM in Waterloo, Nortel Networks.

  3. 90 billion? It will be a lot more than 90 billion. Look what happened to the cost of building the transmountain pipeline expansion, ArriveCan app, the old gun registry, building military equipment…
    You can safely assume that that 90 billion will be 4x to 6x more expensive than the estimated cost. Both the California and UK high speed rail are way over budget and behind schedule. UK from an original cost of 38 billion to 110 billion. California went from 38 billion to 128 billion.

    Those cost overruns are not mistakes. High speed rail and other big, unnecessary government vanity projects are a way of fraudulently transferring taxpayer money to politicians and their corporate buddies. And for what? To get people in the golden horeshoe between Toronto and Montreal a little bit faster – a massive waste of all Canadians taxpayer money. High speed rail has virtually no value to increase trade or production of marketable goods. An investment would be upgrading and building new ports, more traditional rail lines for exports, new roads to open up new mining areas etc.

    This type of project is why Canada is poorer than Alabama.

    1. Damn! Stole my thunder…again
      Trans-Mountain is the perfect example of this.
      Liarberal insiders are drooling at the prospect of all the waste and graft

      1. It will be straight up theft of taxpayer’s money with virtually zero economic benefit. Then there’s the opportunity cost. The billions and billions of dollars wasted on high speed rail could be used for projects that are actually in the national interest or simply not spent at all which reduces debt and interest costs for future generations.

    2. Here in CA …

      California Proposition 1A, approved in 2008, authorized $9.95 billion in bonds to fund the construction of a high-speed rail system connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.

      2008
      $ 9.95B

      2026
      No track laid
      An estimated cumulative spending of around $34.76 billion needed to complete the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment. Expected to open for service in 2033 … “estimated cumulative spending”? Who talks like that? Except an Ai program coded to support the high speed [sic] train to nowhere

      They don’t even TALK about San Francisco to Los Angeles anymore, because of the geologic difficulty of the “Grapevine” segment thru the Tehachapi mountains … speaking of REAL $$$

      Prop 1a was passed in 2008 … when we all voted for the magic “green” Negro for POTUS. He was going to “transform” America to a country without cars and where DEI would solve all America’s problems. Yes, we are currently in country surrounding Iran cleaning up his mess. And his magic-inspired high speed (ave. speed 60 mph) train is still unfinished … let alone half or even 1/4 finished. And is costing more and more and more.

      Oh yeah … and MY President has cut off all Federal Funding for it … so nobody in IOWA has to pay $9,000 for our idiotic train that is sure to go bankrupt shortly after it starts service. Our local mass transit system BART has never operated in the black … and now is begging for another sales tax increase (pushing my local sales tax to 11%) or threatens to close HALF of all Stations.

      These government “non profit” mass transit projects become cash cows for the public UNIONISTAS. And the operating costs spiral ever higher and utterly out of control.

  5. There’s VIA rail accross the country now, what are the loads like, even in the busy areas of the country?!

    Via rail couldn’t even make it across the country last December! https://globalnews.ca/news/11573406/train-passengers-stranded-via-rail/

    The Rocky Mountaneer is a premium service fit for a specific purpose, but I can’t see many people wanting to take the train, when a flight is so much faster and usually doesn’t stop in calgary, regina, winnipeg etc etc, further adding to the travel time. And what are the ticket prices to be, besides subsidized by, you guessed it, us in the prairies!!

    I say, give us our pipeline FIRST, it will immediately begin generating REAL revenue, then we’ll think about your high speed rail..
    Tired of funding these pipe dream projects from a nation half a world away, that hate us, like a school bully taking our lunch money!

  6. Because Marx Carnage and Brookfield stand to make tons of money off of the taxpayers. The “Elbows Up!” retards are totally fine with this.

    1. Ya gotta wonder what Brookfield has going on in India that this Son-of-@-Bitch hasn’t told us about

  7. Shiny objects for the Eloi. Our new Fuhrer must think this is a green version of the Autobahn. At least that project had commercial value.

  8. Monorail,monorail…
    The thieves are not even pretending,
    Can Ahh Duh is a collapsing Kleptocracy,where the criminals have passed laws protecting the graft.
    The O.P.M has run out ,all that is left is blatant theft.

    1. But ,but , but ,the last 11 years of “investing” have paid of so handsomely ! A number of years ago a had an I depth conversation with a person who emigrated from India . He had been educated in finance in India . The bottom line he indicated to me was the country is a cesspool of corruption. Sounds like the perfect place to invest Canadians money to get paid handsomely. For the investors , not so much. The high speed train looks to be more lucrative than TMX. Best guess is it was only 6 times over budget. But this time is different. We have aw the aw most Intelligent aw P.M ever. And aw eloquent too! What could possibly go wrong.

  9. “Why should the people of British Columbia, Alberta and Newfoundland pay for this?”

    Because it is for the important people, of course! The only people that matter. We must sacrifice everything for them.
    The Hebrew slaves consoled themselves with that very thought as they built the monuments to Pharoah

    After the initial build, what will the economic benefit be? Ridership will have to be heavily subsidized like every other High Speed Rail project in North America. Have there been any completed? I am not be sarcastic. Honestly, I know there has been a lot spent on the California one without any track being laid

  10. East of Toronto they are working on extending the commuter rail line into Toronto out to Bowmanville (78 km from Union Station).

    Part of this project involves building a new railway overpass bridge on the main street of Oshawa. To accomplish this the main street of Oshawa will be closed for two freakin’ years FFS. It tool about 5 years to build the transcontinental railway with pick axes and wheel barrows. Now they have to screw up all the traffic in town for two years to build one bridge.

    I think we’re too dumb to build that line, even if there was a reason to build it.

  11. If the definition of “nation building” is to build a high speed expensive to build maintain and operate vanity project that serves mainly those in Montreal Toronto and Ottawa, it tells you the “nation” is sn exclusive club and you are not a member.
    Someone should create a name for the Laurentian Elite’s that expect everyone to pay for it.

    1. It doesn’t even serve them. Anyone needing to go from Montreal to Toronto (and I doubt that there are that many) is going to drive or fly. You have to get to and from the train station and your destination and you’re not going to do that without a car, so you might as well just do the entire trip with your car.

  13. Well, what Laurentian Canada wants Laurentian Canada gets. Plus Brookfield gets some gravy too. And the corporate media get gravy if they do not do any investigative work.

  14. $100 billion of Canada Pension Funds invested in India.

    That’s a lot of gift cards to redeem.

  15. Wow, that will build a lot of call centers for Canadian companies!
    Tech guy: “Hello, this is Daniel from Toronto, how can I help you?”
    Me: “Bullshit, your name is Sanjay and you’re in a cubicle in Bombay”

    1. Hello, this is John Wayne … I am here to read off a preprinted sheet of all the things you’ve already tried to fix ATT’s klugey software. I will now waste 20min. while I walk you through the steps you’ve already taken to no avail.

      Me: How’s the weather today in Mumbai?

  16. Shades of Mirabel Airport?
    Where the property owners are expropriated by force,the project,that never made any economic sense,gets cancelled..The land is sold to the well connected few..
    See that is how you Libarano.

    1. Also, wasn’t the land expropriated for the never-bult Pickering airport never returned to its owners?

        2. The added insult to all this is that the scheme was a Trudeau pere project, he wanted to close Dorval Airport. Now his airport is gone and Dorval has been renamed after him.

  18. Have had a moment to reflect a little more on the math

    Let’s say that they actually stay in the budget amount (stop laughing this is just a thought exercise) Is that 90 billion JUST the Capital Expenditure?

    So, it’s 90 Billion. What will be the ridership for the year? Let’s just say 1 million. At $1000 per passenger, it would take 90 years to pay that back. That doesn’t include the cost of the unionized, DEI hires or interest rates or energy costs (I’m assuming it will be a solar powered monorail so maybe that will be absolutely free and reliable)

    It would be great if someone broke out the good ol’ Excel and commenced to ciphering on the whole thing. I am sure the liarberals haven’t done any of that.

  19. Does this not sound robotic in the emphasis. Yeah I am not liberal lover but the sincerity level out of ten is a one, possibly two. He is not here for the country and its citizens, and over the years he will have harder time hiding what the extent of his agenda is. Liberal Majority good for the west in the long run I am feeling!

  20. Raise your hand if you are Canadian and know that you will never in your life ride this train, if it is ever completed.

  21. Perfect. Let’s invest our pension funds in a country that’s even more corrupt than Canada. We’d be better to put our savings into UAE, Qatar and Kuwait..and maybe some in Singapore and Norway.

  24. C’mon Pee-pee!

    Get out from under your bed. Stand up and shout out what needs to be said about this criminal waste of money in a country with a collapsed health care system.

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