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You're doing your gish gallop thing as usual. It's just not relevant. They are going to Quebec City because it's a large city (by Canadian standards), politically important and relatively easier to do than anything West of Toronto. The nitpicking is ridiculous. Also, we're talking about...

Yes theres more people West of Toronto than there are East of Montreal. But that population is more diffuse and requires at least two lines to serve as the places listed. And here's the most important part: the cost to do so is massive. Way more expensive to go West of Toronto than East of...

Airports almost never care about modal share on access until they become so busy that parking is practically impossible. There's no risk of that happening in Quebec City. Not in the least because they could also simply build a station at the airport. As usual, you're being argumentative for...

Why should an HSR builder care how people get to the station more than the number of people who can actually use the station?

It's not a "problem" unless you insist on making it one. Namely in this case you don't like how Stats Can has a larger area for the CMA of Quebec City. But if you know anything about how they define CMAs, you know it's based on the activity between those communities. That's why Toronto's CMA...

The only reason Peterborough is getting service is because it is en route to Ottawa and there's no practical way to convert the Lakeshore corridors to HSR. It's simple as that. If Peterborough were 50 km North or South from where it is, they probably wouldn't be getting service.

You must not know what a CMA is, when you list Mississauga and Brampton. Or you're being intentionally misleading. Can never tell with you. This is why you get blocked. Educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_metropolitan_areas_and_agglomerations_in_Canada

We have more ground to cover than postage stamp sized European countries. Let's assume that 400 out of the 600 km Toronto-Peterborough-Ottawa-Montreal is running at full speed. The difference between 250 kph and 300 kph is 16 min. That's not insignificant to whether the HSR will be...

Changes nothing. Take up your definition on how CMAs are defined with Stats Can. It's no different than why Oshawa is not part of the GTA, for example.

Just happens to magically connect the first (Toronto), second (Montreal), fourth (Ottawa-Gatineau) and seventh (Quebec City) largest Census Metropolitan Areas in the country. And as per the 2021 census, Quebec city is larger than every Ontario CMA West of Toronto. Where you guys come up with...

And there will be no consequences because this is what Trump wants.

This has been discussed to death before. Ontario's HSR proposal did some damage. VIA's HFR started around the same time and the Ontario proposal force HFR to set aside the portion West of Toronto. Further to the above, going west from Union is a very complicated project that really should be...

Indeed. 25 years in the CAF. Never seen the exact scoring sheet leak out. Kinda a situation of their own making. There's no way Joly is going without some leeway from cabinet colleagues. This will be highly entertaining. Given the way the French withdrew the Rafale, I don't think they'll...

Minimums are usually quite low.

The 2021 competition scores have leaked. Even the companies never saw the original scores. Enjoy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f-35-gripen-dnd-competition-9.6992167

I have a long maintained that Carney has a very unique perspective. He was a senior public servant in two countries. One of which was a major global power. He knows what government does well and what it does poorly. He also knows what it takes to be a major power. And how that interacts with...

The fundamental problem with a lot of things Trudeau did was that they simply declared stuff and put no effort or thought into operationalizing it. This lead to a lot of disappointing outcomes. Somebody should have taught him about SMART goals.

You can see some of this in the proposed Alto legislation. In my day job, we've been canvassed on how much we can accelerate. First time in my career. But government is big and it'll take some time for the change to reach the public. I will say too that there's some institutional resistance...

I'm genuinely curious what you think a centrist would look like and what policies you think a centrist politician would have today.

Government's goal is generally to maximize the most good for the most people. And "the most people" generally refers to the Canadian electorate. It's not at all clear how the "feminist foreign policy" actually did that. And it's not at all clear how that helps in the current situation we're...