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    Pierre Poilievre ist Gastgeber der Pressekonferenz „Nein zur Alto High Speed ​​Rail“.


    Pierre Poilievre ist Gastgeber der Pressekonferenz „Nein zur Alto High Speed ​​Rail“.



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    1. Medea_From_Colchis on

      Jeez, look at these anti-development conservatives over here. It’s almost like they are against anything that doesn’t involve natural resources or harms the fossil fuel industry. In all seriousness, this is still a major reason why the cons lose: although Canada has certainly taken a different approach to fighting climate change, Canadians still expect our government to have some sort of climate policy and environmental awareness. Poilievre and the CPC don’t know how to balance fossil fuel friendly policies and climate change initiatives. It’s just another example of the lack of balance in the CPC.

    3. cestlavie514 on

      Why, because it isn’t your idea? This track should have been built decades ago. It is needed. Yes it will upset landowners, but unfortunately them the brakes. Move forward and don’t look back.

    4. Old_Bear_1949 on

      PP is looking for relevance. Carney has adopted some conservative proposals, and neutered the stupid ones.

      I’m just waiting for the Axe the Train slogan.

    5. Consistent_Track_341 on

      Every day I tell myself I can’t hate this guy anymore than I already do, and every day he seems to find a new way to be infuriating. Despite being someone who splits his time between BC and NS with no foreseeable direct benefit from this, I love this project. We need to start building things again as a country.

    6. FriendshipOk6223 on

      As usual, we can’t have nice thing in Canada. Our passanger trail system is equivalent of what we found in third word countries

    7. LeadershipHead3594 on

      We are the only country in the G7, and one of the few in the G20, who currently doesn’t any high-speed rail.

      Does he actually want to get votes from all 5 people who complained about this? Even Danielle Smith wants to build HSR in Alberta.

      The best time to build this was 20 years ago, second best time is now.

    8. green_tory on

      At seven minutes in he complains that Carney hasn’t approved new projects.

      At a press conference where he’s opposing an infrastructure project. 

      I wish that I didn’t have to take him seriously, because he’s so unserious at times.

    9. motherofcorgis09 on

      PP the NIMBY!

      Imagine being this wrong about something. We’re probably the only developed country without any high speed rail (which is embarrassing), and this would benefit millions of people living in Canada’s 2 biggest cities.

    10. Nate33322 on

      Of course it’s in my riding the NIMBY farmers have been having a melt down about it for months. 

      The fun part is last time I spoke to Phil Lawrence he was really positive about the benefits of the Alto to our riding. Now he’s standing behind Poilievre as Poilievre is announcing his opposition. 

      To think 150 years ago the conservatives built a railway coast to cost in under a decade through the Canadian shield and Rocky Mountains. 

    11. Case_Federal on

      The irony is that he admits that VIA rail has poor on-time performance but doesn’t acknowledge that it’s because they don’t have their own infrastructure. How does he propose to improve rail if we don’t build more dedicated tracks? And if we’re going to build dedicated tracks between two large cities anyway, why wouldn’t we make it HSR?

      Also just ask Germany what happens when a conservative government sits by and watches infrastructure deteriorate for decades in the name of saving money and balancing budgets. Spoiler: it ends up costing billions more in the future anyway and with far more headaches!

    12. PineBNorth85 on

      This is ridiculous. We need HSR. We are decades behind on it. If property owners don’t like it – oh well. Their property line is where their say should end. NIMBY-ism is holding everything back in this country from housing to general infrastructure. Enough.

    13. Responsible_Sink3044 on

      This guy’s political legacy is going to be all about how he handed the LPC a historic electoral streak. He really cannot help himself. 

    14. zakanova on

      The amount of money the connected cities will generated is going to be obscene – so of course that’s bad to these short sighted fools.

      Now that 401 tunnel? What’s their opinion on that giant waste of money?

    15. pncoop on

      The high speed rail line has been discussed for years!! If PP was a truly competent opposition leader he should be criticizing how long it has been taking… oh right… this goes to Harper days when PP was a Minister.

    16. DistributionOk7393 on

      Surely there are better ways to spend 90 billion. It will cost 180 and won’t be done in 40 years. To the benefit of whom? Nobody is asking for this. 

      It’s a koolaid in the water fountains type promise. Sounds cool but makes no sense. 

    17. TheShindiggleWiggle on

      Guy can’t help but just point at anything any other party does and say it’s bad. Such a sore loser, and overall ineffectual politician. Atleast other parties can negotiate actual helpful policies through that help their voter base when not in power. All this guy has is crying, even about stuff he supported before the LPC did it.

    18. DarkNetwerk on

      I wonder how the Quebec CPC MPs feel about this stance. Either they’re against it because it might go through their suburbs/ridings or they’re for it because of the increased economic benefits it will bring the city, including their ridings.

      The former is NIMBY but, I suppose, is understandable and could be a reason PP is coming out strongly against it (to bring them back onside after the Don Cherry thing).

      The latter may lead to more floor crossings given it would be in addition to their grievance re DC.

    19. dare1100 on

      They had the opportunity to push for IMPROVEMENTS with Alto – instead he chooses political suicide. Brilliant play once again.

    20. baz4k6z on

      He always has to be either opposed to something someone else is proposing, or propose to take away something from a group.

      I find he has no vision or project beyond short term political gains. I miss the time politics felt less hostile while he was sitting on the bench.

    21. darth_henning on

      So…he’s basically tied in Alberta and SK, his usual strongholds and his strategy is to piss off voters in Ontario and Quebec?

      That seems…unwise.

    22. Routine_Soup2022 on

      He’s literally made his party the party of no. If he doesn’t agree with it, it’s a woke ideology. He wants to fix the Canadian economy but not by investing in the Canadian economy. I guess maybe the budget balances itself?

      I can’t possibly be more motivated to vote against this guy again in the next election. I was pretty motivated to vote against him in this election but I may possibly be further down that path today.

    23. Canadian_Daniel on

      This guy does know that building infrastructure does help the economy and better development in these areas will likely bring housing costs down, right?

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