I like train journeys more. Especially if it’s an overnight one.
It’s a terrible idea. Canadians don’t take the train. It’ll be a black hole for decades. It’ll get killed when the conservatives are elected.
In Europe, they are. I like taking the train. I was in Switzerland a few days ago going from city to city. It’s such a nice way to travel. I’ve done Toronto-Montreal on Via and the Acela on Amtrak. My mother-in-law worked for the CNR.
But Canadians just don’t take the train inter-city. You could shut Via Rial down and it would barely have an effect.
This is a giant boondoggle from a Prime Minister who loves to make grand announcements that gives him good press.
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it is, but we are especially crap about it in the past generation or so
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A big part of that is how crap it is. I genuinely think this could work, but having passenger trains need to stop for 10 minutes while a freight train goes by, etc - all of those elements just kill it.
But the construction of it is going to be a boondoggle, and it sure as shit won’t work if it is run the way Via is run.
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Just want to say well played for boondoggle, twice just above.
Definitely the word of the day, and if I have my wits about me, I will seek to use it in the course of my day as it needs to be more popular.
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It could.
The question is whether or not it is economic.
That I’m deeply skeptical of
Executive order from Ottawa this morning to rename the Great Lakes. Up to Michigan if they wish to change their state name, I guess.
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Canada
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Biggest Musk fanboy I know, Quebecois head of an electric vehicle association who has spent hours every on social media defending Tesla, sent that petition around this weekend
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Klopptimist will be heartbroken that you have forgotten him so quickly. 
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I thought he is/was South African 
His mother was born in Canada and emigrated to South Africa with her family around 1950, so he has Canadian citizenship. He did not live in Canada until he was nearly university age.
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Canada to get booted from Five Eyes?
https://x.com/ft/status/1894410479923077584?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg
Five Eyes is effectively already dead with Gabbard at the table. There is no way she would clear a background check with any of the other four partners, so what was shared back with the US is already being tapered. Equally, the US side had already been ordered to stop sharing much of the data. The other four partners are doing more bilateral sharing, though with inevitable loss.
In terms of Western security, it is already a major loss. The US produces the vast majority of the raw data used, in terms of intercepts, satellite photos, etc. The allies contribute more processing and analytics.
The other non-starter that has yet to attract much attention is the proposal to add Israel.
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kills the whole Nijjar case between India and Canada doesn’t it ?
Tulsi is awful.
But the US government is concerned about foreign intelligence agencies operating in Canada, the cartels pumping out fentanyl and its compounds, and the mass unvetted migration that has come into the country, particularly from the Middle East.
The Trump security people don’t view the Trudeau government as serious on national security
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No, most of that evidence was shared ages ago. It is pretty clear that the Modi regime is going to just keep doing what it wants to do, and the Canadian government has far more pressing concerns. There will be fewer Canadian diplomats in India, fewer Indian diplomats in Canada. Three of the consulates are already effectively shut, Chandigarh won’t ever re-open (basically a visa-processing farm, will be cut in the next Main Estimates, even before any government change) and Bengaluru is unlikely. Mumbai is the only one that Canada might really want to re-open. Closing the Vancouver consulate is probably the best insulation, with the possibility that Toronto will also be shut down.
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They have their nominal concerns. It is pretty clear from all evidence that there is far more in the way of illegal drugs moving north across the order than vice versa.
On migration, yeah, though the Middle East numbers are not that significant. The wave from about a decade ago is long gone. South Asian migration is a political hot button now and is falling dramatically.
On foreign intelligence agencies, also a reasonable point, but the US has not had a lot more success in restraining either China or India - and frankly, we don’t need to keep fighting with China any more. The whole Huawei slugfest was at the behest of the US. As for the activities of the Russian intelligence agency, well, I think it is fair to say they have had a great deal more success in the US than Canada. Canadian security agencies do not see the Trump administration as actually serious about US national security. FFS, they just voted with North Korea.
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Now he’s backtracking.
Or it was false to begin with.
Who the heck knows these days?
https://x.com/gray_mackenzie/status/1894430151695274147?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg