And horses but no one wants to go back to them either.
@rommelangus3 ай бұрын
Lol like in Europe and select Asian countries.
@josephdarchambault62643 ай бұрын
you relize the ab gov has been talking about this since at least ralphie boy. smoke and mirrors people, to distract for messing with your voting rights voting rights, THE VERY PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY take that away and we are just RUBES, Election interference!!
@donmacquarrie91613 ай бұрын
Already obsolete with the invention of the 750 mph zero emission, zero energy Air Sledd.....rlmao
@MrLennybach3 ай бұрын
I would love to ride a train
@TenthCrane27883 ай бұрын
Trains to Banff and Jasper will be great. Just make the ticket price reasonable so families can afford it.
@@TenthCrane2788 What do families have to do with this? I just dont want them to lose money..
@TenthCrane27883 ай бұрын
@@andiman45 Do you want a train to Banff and Jasper to exclude families? That's not very nice.
@andiman453 ай бұрын
@@TenthCrane2788 to be honest Im not crazy about trains to national parks jasper and banff unless they are passing thru like via rail. Busy enough there. Calgary to Edmonton a must tho.. Time, Co2 and fuel saving vs cars and planes a big benefit.
@andiman453 ай бұрын
this should have been done in the 60's and 70's
@user-xf3qt8yn2w3 ай бұрын
Bring them all back ! Canada wide ! You want us out of our cars ! Then give us the trains !
@lesliemacmillan99323 ай бұрын
But we didn't ride the trains when we had them. We preferred our cars. And planes. That's why there aren't (hardly) any trains anymore.
@margyeoman35643 ай бұрын
I remember trains!! When I was young we used to take the train from Red Deer to Calgary. Loved it!!! We used to take the train from Calgary to Vancouver ! The fare was $25
@margyeoman35643 ай бұрын
@lesliemacmillan9932 It was buses that took over from trains in Alberta, before cars took over from buses . And, finally, even Greyhound gave it up.
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
@@margyeoman3564 Greyhound was less interested in moving people than in padding the bottom line. They only left the low population, spread out west, not the lucrative east. Basic Infrastructure, like everyone, not just people who can afford new cars and planes, being able to access all parts of the province should be a first priority, maybe even before another round of doctor and teacher raises. Maybe everyone should have clean, affordable and ample water, an also proper sanitary and waste treatment and handling. We need to start building the basics of a province before we go so crazy on AI and EV and DEI.
@spartacusyoya3 ай бұрын
Doesn't Canada have Via-Rail? Just a mixed up and divided country, can't ever get anything practical and efficient done here.
@LinuxKnuckleHead3 ай бұрын
I'm in. I hate driving. I think it's an awesome idea. Sure it will cost money but it would pay for itself once it's started
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
Via rail enters the chat.....
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
It really wouldn't. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and honestly who rides trains, Via rail has been struggling for decades. They are expensive to maintain and cost more than just driving or flying
@TBonerton3 ай бұрын
@@babyrakesno one used it because it doesn't go anywhere currently. My friend lives in Calgary and rode the train from Edmonton to 30 minutes north of Brandon, MB to visit his dad. He has to drive to Edmonton to catch the Via because it doesn't go through Calgary. And the terminal he was dropped at was just a stop on the tracks with a building. No terminal and he had to schedule his dad to pick him up. So the train doesn't embark from where he lives and dropped him off in the middle of nowhere. It simply is not convenient to ride rail because no one has invested in passenger rail in this country. Mostly because we have cars. The number of people who have drivers licenses who shouldn't be driving is high and these people should be riding rail. Trusting these people with 2 tons travelling at 100 kmh is no longer feasible. No one respects the privilege to drive anymore.
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
@@TBonerton The issue is it used to go everywhere, but due to trains being expensive and slow people stopped using them and they started limiting services. Kinda like Greyhound busses. If it isn't profitable people just stop using them and they cut service to save costs. Trains can't compete with planes or even a car anymore.
@garywagner24663 ай бұрын
There was still rail service to Banff and Lake Louise in the 1980s, so it wasn’t that long ago. What goes around, comes around.
@freddychef1233 ай бұрын
it failed as a means of travel, so do it again. what is the definition of insanity again?
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
Yea and they got rid of it because it's expensive to maintain and nobody rides it
@darkbrightnorth3 ай бұрын
And the conservatives were the ones that killed it so let’s not give them too much praise here.
@AtlasCrafted3 ай бұрын
The irony of Alberta only just thinking about installing passenger trains while its been the norm across the planet for over a 100 years.
@PolarExpress-ql3nk3 ай бұрын
All of North America used to have standard passenger rail, but we threw them out when we developed cheap oil and cars.
@AtlasCrafted3 ай бұрын
@@PolarExpress-ql3nk We have very effective and standard passenger trains all throughout Ontario. Easy and cheap.
@BramStoked-uq4hp3 ай бұрын
So you live in a very densely populated area. Think about the word dense.
@AtlasCrafted3 ай бұрын
@@BramStoked-uq4hp I love how you have to go off assuming everything about me to justify the hurt feelings. Nope, I grew up in a town of 35,000. We had access to passenger trains and could take them almost anywhere. Cope
@PolarExpress-ql3nk3 ай бұрын
@@AtlasCrafted The trains are little bit better for sure, but I have heard that the older lines that used to be active in all the areas has largely been shut down for over 50 years. People favored the car, and now we are slowly realizing that the staggering car usage won't be with us for much longer.
@mattwaters69873 ай бұрын
We had the "Dayliner" running through Red Deer back in the late 70s connecting to Edmonton and Calgary. It was great!
@miraclo33 ай бұрын
This isn't High-Speed Rail. This isn't what people have been asking for for decades. They will do anything and everything to sabotage High-Speed Rail. It will still be faster to drive. the whole point of having a high speed rail system between Edmonton and Calgary is that it would be faster than taking an airplane. A high-speed rail would travel at between 300 and 400 km/h and would only cost you between 20 and $40 for a ticket and only take about 45 minutes between cities. The rail being proposed will take over 3 hours. But the conservatives will do anything to bend the knee to automakers and oil producers. every other modernized country has figured out High-Speed Rail. Why can't we? Because it'll mean less of a Reliance on oil and the conservatives can't ever allow that so we all get to suffer to Big Oil.
@DK-ev9dg3 ай бұрын
Not every modern country has figured out. Only China with reliability. Japanese one is standing still for decades and collecting dust.
@donmacquarrie91613 ай бұрын
Already obsolete with the invention of the 750 mph zero emission, zero energy Air Sledd.....rlmao
@normrodgers8283 ай бұрын
About time..... now let's use 100% of the carbon tax to fund it....and make it electric.
@Grant_S_M3 ай бұрын
YES!
@lesliemacmillan99323 ай бұрын
But the carbon tax doesn't generate any revenue. Most of it (supposedly) gets refunded. If you use carbon tax to pay for trains (or anything else) then you don't get your climate action plan money from the feds quarterly. You want a free lunch.
@Grant_S_M3 ай бұрын
@@lesliemacmillan9932 Fossil fuel mafia fan spotted!
@lesliemacmillan99323 ай бұрын
@@Grant_S_M It's you who are the mafia. You want to grab tax money for a vanity project, then force people to use it when other methods work better.
@mrbillmacneill3 ай бұрын
this electric power comes from? do they get to burn coal or nat gas for electricity ? or go nuclear ?
@suzycue053 ай бұрын
Seats don’t look very comfortable 😂
@DarkwarriorJ3 ай бұрын
Huh, our government actually has a good suggestion. Of course, the question is: How are they funding it, and how long will it take. I am generally cynical, but what surprised me is that the government of Danielle Smith is on board with this idea at all, as opposed to making the dumbest possible choice. At least the intent appears to be there. The question now is: Is the competence there?
@ClaymanS3 ай бұрын
That would be great! Little bit like in Europe, people should get used to public transportation!
@BC_Geoff3 ай бұрын
Public transport Is COMMUNISM! I don’t want COMMUNIST TRAINS in my province!
@istvanglock74453 ай бұрын
Would be nice. But outside major cities, it's difficult to provide an acceptable level of public transport that will pay its way in somewhere as relatively sparsely populated as Canada.
@Maguire-om9zd3 ай бұрын
Public transit is absolutely awful and hugely expensive to build and to operate.
@xGSFxGoat3 ай бұрын
People are used to public transit in Europe because it's actually useful. The same thing absolutely cannot be said here in Canada
@john.a.gonsalves37313 ай бұрын
People would have adapted long ago, if it was there, but again 'could haves' and 'would haves' never gets anything done.....
@corryg64033 ай бұрын
1st smart thing Smith has done well brought up yet to see if it happens. This should be across Canada. Hi-speed trains across the prairies just think what it would do for small towns
@NorbzAdventures3 ай бұрын
Every MF 2 years for the last 40 years they announce it....but DON'T DO A THING!
@bettyboop24523 ай бұрын
I can’t get to Edmonton from Calgary to visit my great niece . They moved out there after their mother died and I’m 72 , need an easy travel mode
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
Planes have been invented old timer
@freddexta33633 ай бұрын
Take the Red Arrow bus, cheap, fast, convenient.
@dra6o0n3 ай бұрын
Trains has a massive historical factor in Canadian history and culture, I find it weird that it's all but disappeared in the modern era... Subways and Metro stations are basically 'electrical' trains in a way, just scale it up to be longer trips.
@spik3303 ай бұрын
if its not high speed its just a tourist attraction
@MeaLynk3 ай бұрын
not really even a normal speed train is still just as fast or faster than highway speeds and even if driving is faster taking the train is way less stressful and u can do literally anything besides focusing on the road the entire time high speed rail would be great but even if it isn't it'd still be very useful and should be built
@kachunkk3 ай бұрын
@@MeaLynk Why in the world would we want to waste money on old technology when the new tech is already widely available? This isn't so much about public transit as it is the UCP tightening our reliance on coal.
@DylanRoberts73 ай бұрын
@@kachunkk Probably due to costs. High speed rail is projected to cost like 30M$ / km in Canada in comparison to some European countries spending 9-15M / km, and that estimate for Canada is honestly probably a generous one given how we usually do things.
@ReginaldWrinklebottom3 ай бұрын
Long over due 👍
@dwaynewladyka5773 ай бұрын
It's not a priority. This will end up being another very costly boondoogle by the UCP, who has already made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes. Alberta has an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more, that the Alberta PCs caused, in the early 1900s. That's a bigger priority. So are hospitals, schools, helping seniors, and looking after other core programs and services. In 2007, the Alberta PCs were considering getting a high speed train between Edmonton and Calgary, and that idea was opposed, because of the cost, other problems that would go along with it.
@lizliz41863 ай бұрын
How many ppl take the train through the Rockies now? I heard it's cheaper to travel to Europe for 2 weeks including air fare.
@eddiewillers13 ай бұрын
Hmmm...just imagine if we stopped sending transfer taxes to Ottawa.
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
Imagine if we sold 25 million barrels of oil a day, instead of less than 5 million...
@dwaynewladyka5773 ай бұрын
Alberta doesn't send any money to Ottawa. The Conservatives in Alberta wasted and lost exponential amounts of money on the most costliest debacles repeatedly, ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer the premier of Alberta. The UCP have already made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, and this will be another boondoogle for them. Alberta has an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more, because in the early 1990s, the Alberta PCs failed to properly upkeep infrastructure in Alberta. That's a bigger issue, as are hospitals, schools, help for seniors, a looming water shortage, and other core services.
@istvanglock74453 ай бұрын
Transfer taxes? All of Canada sends federal taxes to Ottawa, which then decides how to use these taxes in the form of transfer payments. A transfer tax is something quite different from what you think it is - and has nothing to do with transfer payments.
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
@@dwaynewladyka577 Same tune dwayne
@lesliedishslayer3 ай бұрын
Imagine Alberta separating and not being Canadians anymore
@wocookie22773 ай бұрын
Should have spent the heritage fund on this decades ago. But there are some fancy outhouses in Kananaskis.
@shaykespeeer70403 ай бұрын
Taxpayers will pay to build it, then the Alberta government will hand it over to private corporations for pennies on the dollar. Albertans better DEMAND that IF taxpayers pay for this project, then this passenger rail better remain the property of taxpayers for as long as it exists!!!
@Superneuf703 ай бұрын
If it isn’t high speed rail, it isn’t worth the effort.
@BrucexfromxCanada3 ай бұрын
From Quebec: Go for it! rail is infrastreucture, and as long as corruption is kept out, in the long term it is growth for all and added resilience!
@ronmason17103 ай бұрын
I remember watching the day liners travel behind my house, on its way to Edmonton. For smaller markets these are still feasible!
@HaloFlemz86Ай бұрын
I’d use it. I gotta get to Billings Montana once and while. Easyier to train it to Lethbridge.
@karenacton38543 ай бұрын
Are these trains going to be electric?
@skylance253 ай бұрын
Why don't we have this already? Via rail is nice but only once a week and 8 hours late.
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
The reason Via rail doesn't have constant service is trains are expensive to maintain and nobody rides them anymore. This is the issue with this project. Alberta should be investing in a low cost airline carrier if anything. Trains are dead
@tamjidterrorblade3 ай бұрын
Yeah just two century behind Europe when it comes to railway
@junhaotu97523 ай бұрын
2.5 Centuries behind China and Japan 3 Centuries behind Germany and UK
@tossedsalad55323 ай бұрын
Bring back rhe Hobo's riding the rails of the 1950's
@dumindaweeratunga9033 ай бұрын
very good decision - I like this lady's vision
@snafujag1003 ай бұрын
This lady has no vision,other than the blinkered view of a far right dictator.✌️
@donmacquarrie91613 ай бұрын
Yay! another corporate monopoly paid for by taxpayers! yay!
@jagwa953 ай бұрын
I was in Europe and Canada and United States is so behind I don’t understand this is going to help Canadian people and tourists this a good investment to Alberta and Ontario should do the same ASAP
@waffles1ca3 ай бұрын
Worth noting, you can fit all of Europe into Canada but the population density is very different
@junhaotu97523 ай бұрын
@@waffles1ca oh please the north is empty
@curiousoddity3 ай бұрын
Better late than never, good on Alberta trying to catch up to the East!
@bryanscott85283 ай бұрын
filthy Quebecer, passing judgement on us english-speakers, with our non-working transit systems
@MrInitialMan3 ай бұрын
I hope they decide to have a stop in Didsbury! We already have a station!
@rdsieben3 ай бұрын
It better be feasible. Use it or lose it! Calgary to Banff and Lake Louise is for sure feasible.
@kachunkk3 ай бұрын
Oml, at least use high speed rail. Leave it to the UCP to use coal engines in the 21st century.
@xGSFxGoat3 ай бұрын
Leave it to an NDP supporter to assume that a steam train sitting in a museum is going to be pushed back into active service
@backonpro56793 ай бұрын
“Coal engine” wth is a coal engine?
@TylerBexson3 ай бұрын
Wait a second. Sure if its Canadians rail line. How about we dont let foreign investors take control of our land and country anymore..... or else.....
@mace41canuck3 ай бұрын
Rail is still around but greyhound is long gone.
@Cheetor893 ай бұрын
I like that idea, railways built Canada and they can be the future for transportation.
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
They are already dead. They are expensive to maintain, slow, and more expensive than planes to ride
@Brianrockrailfan3 ай бұрын
Awesome 🚅🚃🚃
@LinuxKnuckleHead3 ай бұрын
No investing $15b in Honda electric cars in Ontario to employ 1000 new jobs is a much better idea. Yes build that. It's a GREAT idea Daniel Smith. On so many different levels. And it would create a lot more jobs at a fraction of the cost of an electric car plant that we won't be able to utilize for another 20+ years
@waffles1ca3 ай бұрын
The majority of the $15,000,000,000 is Honda money
@hpppp8503 ай бұрын
What about starting to built first Emergency Rooms…. Waiting hours are horrible….. Horrible…..
@DetroitTyler3 ай бұрын
This is Amazin !
@coffeeNlemoncheesecake3 ай бұрын
Bring the royalhudson back so it can go from B.C. To Mabitoba. But make it a fast train dor all To ride.
@harps19743 ай бұрын
On CPKC tracks or on CN tracks that is already available?
@rommelangus3 ай бұрын
Hopefully not…
@Indeewoods2 ай бұрын
Awesome!!
@Mahalima-ul4ut3 ай бұрын
Will this benefit the farming industry and the oil industry at least? Why not twin the major highways instead, and 3 lanes on strategic spans of QE2 and Highway 1. We Albertans are not mass commuters. We want privacy and safety when commuting. Remember, Greyhound bus did not survive. This is not europe or japan or china. We dont want to go to Calgary and Edmonton and rent a car there, we want to use our own cars going around. And for tourism sake, why not put the commuter train from Banff to Calgary instead, just for novelty and prestige, right or am I right?
@aaaa19533 ай бұрын
The bus isn't too fast, maybe they can make a speedy train to the Calgary YYC airport?
@NewfieGal3 ай бұрын
Beautiful....❤❤❤❤
@DynamicOwl133 ай бұрын
This i find pretty cool, i'd definitely use it.
@Vancouverite1353 ай бұрын
That's a real huge step for the environment, quality of life, and the economy.
@waffles1ca3 ай бұрын
Environmental? Not so sure, Alberta still generates electricity from coal (as well as other means )
@nemesistactical54053 ай бұрын
This is a good idea, I’m sure if it’s affordable people will use the train.
@john.a.gonsalves37313 ай бұрын
Capital intensive projects always have cost over runs, it is just the nature of these projects with so many variables known and hidden, no doubt there will be challenges but Kudos to Alberta for consistently breaking the Great Canadian procrastination cycle in making Canada Great Again.....
@Joe3pops3 ай бұрын
Not that many years ago Trump himself suggested rails from Alaska south to Alberta. Imagine what that would do for tourism? One rail ticket, Glenbow Museum Calgary then a few days later u visit Red Dog Saloon & Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau Alaska.
@user-ns6js4hn3e3 ай бұрын
Wow, best of such news I've heard since the 1967 Expo when the gov't promised a nation wide network that would move masses of people & they never implied that it would be done in single-occupancy vehicles. That's one long hick-up, eh.
@michhow7883 ай бұрын
Did anyone actually listen to the whole announcement???
@user-jk3ht5hn3m2 ай бұрын
Monorail coming to Springfield alberta!
@nephilimshammer95673 ай бұрын
How much will this cost each spring lol
@stevenmitchell53193 ай бұрын
It's about time.
@CanadianFitted3 ай бұрын
YOO this is 🔥🔥
@RailfanVal3 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@wheressteve3 ай бұрын
Rail is coming just like the GST was temporary, a politically driven announcement isn't worth anything.
@rawfootagetoday67663 ай бұрын
Alberta... slowly making their way into the 20th century....
@panigALI1199s3 ай бұрын
City "News" is embarrassingly pathetic, on the level of small town Ohio local news. TO is constantly scoring own goals and takin victory knee slides.
@janiece84393 ай бұрын
About time !!
@statusworldchanger5953 ай бұрын
JUST DO NOT BUILD A PASSENGER RAIL CAR WITH WOODEN SEATS! THAT'S A SLAP IN THE FACE TOWARDS PASSENGERS!
@coleenlewis-watts14363 ай бұрын
Cool
@SuperFXDL3 ай бұрын
Cool will the train bring us Doctors!!??
@randalwalker72003 ай бұрын
Yeah..so is our hospital expansion in Red Deer 😅
@gTimber19303 ай бұрын
Finally. A politician smart enough to bring rail to the future.
@waffles1ca3 ай бұрын
And burn coal to generate electricity
@brianpatterson62203 ай бұрын
So is this why she wants our pension money
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
She doesn't want your pension money, she just doesn't want Ontario, Quebec, nor Blackface to have your pension money, which they now do.
@istvanglock74453 ай бұрын
@@user-sm3ii5dk1u No, they don't. Everyone in Canada pays the same CPP pension contributions as everyone else, according to income. And everyone in Canada gets the same out as pension according to what they put in. What do Ontario or Quebec have to do with this? The answer is nothing, and Quebec has its own pension plan, which isn't doing as well. The CPP is by law kept at a distance from politicians, and is one of the best performing pension funds in the world. Where on earth do you get these notions from?
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
@@istvanglock7445 CPP invest almost nothing in western Canada. I didn't say anything about contributions, but they are also tilted eastward, but, enjoy your view.
@dwaynewladyka5773 ай бұрын
@@istvanglock7445The UCP lost $4 billion on a pension fund debacle. Also, the UCP are trying to force an Alberta Provincial Pension Plan upon Albertans, which has very little support, because it's a very bad idea.
@DirtyDog9953 ай бұрын
@@dwaynewladyka577 And how much has the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund lost so far? Just pointing out this is not an isolate thing.
@gregfrie14583 ай бұрын
Why not super fast Learjets it would save time also now that's the way to go the ndp says
@DetroitTyler3 ай бұрын
With the extreme cold and heavy snowfall how does this affect rail and would it be a seasonal thing?
@kimjongoof50003 ай бұрын
In the old days, Canada had snow removal trains to mitigate the snow. In Japan, many trains in the north have snow plows
@marjorietench39253 ай бұрын
Blowing smoke as usual.
@freedombro65023 ай бұрын
I love Danielle smith, most of the time.
@bettyboop24523 ай бұрын
Go Danielle ❤
@hughjass10443 ай бұрын
'Bout f*cking time!
@palecrayon3 ай бұрын
leave it to the UCP to take 3 years to even start a project. if this actually becomes a thing and doesnt get ruined like everything else smith and the UCP touch this will be huge for alberta
@xodox12713 ай бұрын
Waagh waagh waagh, government please do everything for me.
@freddexta33633 ай бұрын
Things get ruined by the Liberals from Eastern Canada, not by the UCP. As you can see by the migration patterns
@frogery3 ай бұрын
finally deciding to modernize eh
@pridemoore59573 ай бұрын
Make a ticket for your car
@alichoudhry20133 ай бұрын
❤❤🎉🎉
@kerrigrandmaison78443 ай бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍
@TnTTyler3 ай бұрын
Won't ever happen
@carmenlajoie27193 ай бұрын
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@ChairmanMeeooww3 ай бұрын
LOL!
@sebdob97083 ай бұрын
Such a cool idea. I hope they make them look old school. Keep the old designs if possible, at least astheically
@Heart-cy9tb3 ай бұрын
Finally 😁
@crushingvanessa32773 ай бұрын
This from a place with a population bent on the personal vehicle.
@wheressteve3 ай бұрын
When there is no alternative it isn't being "bent", it's the only way to get from one place to another.
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
Local buses should run every 1 minutes within a safe walk from every door, every hour of day and night. Intercity and town to town buses should run at least 4-6 times a day, every day. Trains should access every community at least twice each day. And, high speed, super high speed rail should link Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Imagine if home and work, wherever either is, is easily accessible. Oh, and all of those should not have fares or tickets. That is what infrastructure should be. A way for the population to be able to affordably do the things they need to do.
@agilemind62413 ай бұрын
@@wheressteve The massive pickup trucks you see everywhere are not required to get from one place to another. They are a symptom of our diseased cultural relationship to personal vehicles.
@crushingvanessa32773 ай бұрын
@@wheressteve Even when there is, people still use their own car. People aren't being bent, it's the way they are.
@l3urlyi3453 ай бұрын
@@user-sm3ii5dk1utell us you don't understand economics without telling us you don't understand economics
@user-gg5wv6pt3i3 ай бұрын
Say no to rail. 🛡
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
Say no to being a muppet..
@sounakmukherjee80343 ай бұрын
Stop Equalization payments and use that to pay for the Rail link project.
@dwaynewladyka5773 ай бұрын
Alberta doesn't send money to Ottawa, or to other provinces. The UCP have only carried on with the fiscal ineptitude and poor planning that the Alberta PCs did, ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer the premier of Alberta. The UCP have already done well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, so this will be another big boondoogle for them. When the Alberta PCs were in power, they had an idea of a high speed train between Edmonton and Calgary, and people didn't support the idea. In the early 1990s, the Alberta PCs failed to properly upkeep infrastructure in Alberta, which left Alberta with an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more. That's a bigger priority, as is hospitals, schools, helping the seniors, and other core issues.
@istvanglock74453 ай бұрын
How do you stop equalization payments? It's Ottawa that makes equalization payments, not Alberta.
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
You can thank Conservatives for the current transfer payment structure. Also, read a book and learn something about transfer payments before you come here and flap your UCP propaganda.
@babyrakes3 ай бұрын
Equalization payments come from your federal income tax. The province never sees that money
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
LOL, yeah right. We've talked about this for 50+ years in this province. Never going to happen, especially not under the UCP, which absolutely despises anything that might help the middle class.
@albback81763 ай бұрын
There is only one practical rail link: Calgary to Edmonton. We will not see lines going to Grand Prairie or other small cities, as there isn't enough passengers and population. There is also only one country that can build these rails cost effectively, which is China. If you don't want China to do it, then say goodbye to on time, on budget work.
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
Japan would like to see you in the principals office after school....
@albback81763 ай бұрын
@@JayHammerCA was the principal's office built by China?
@Ithoughtthiswasamerica2 ай бұрын
@@albback8176 nope, Germany also has some choice words for you
@albback81762 ай бұрын
@@Ithoughtthiswasamerica I'm sure Germany has alot to say. But China built the world's largest hsr network in only 10 years, and has a nearly complete industrial production supply chain, and many competent engineers. So my choice words would be to either follow the road, or roll down the cliff.
@Redspottedbug3 ай бұрын
Can’t believe we are going backward in time . Our ancestors had it right the whole time
@DK-ev9dg3 ай бұрын
Get China's help. Don't go to Japan. Japanese are way way behind China. Don't play politics.
@DarkwarriorJ3 ай бұрын
Let's suppose Japan is 40 years behind China. We are about a century behind Japan. I'd say catching up to 40 years behind China, if it can actually be done without politics ruining the entire project and only a 5x cost overrun, would be worth it.
@Sigma4Life9723 ай бұрын
And no it's not hyper loop as floated around before, it will take hours to get to each destination, we will finally be par be many third world nations now. On the flip side money that we will save we can send to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to save democrazy and Christianity. Win win I guess
@johngreene72763 ай бұрын
100 years in the making, and it will never happen. Sad. Great idea, but 100 years still, and it's all talk. It should be mandated.
@graydenhormes58293 ай бұрын
Who are you and what have you done with the real Danielle Smith? You love to see it.
@rv6ejguy3 ай бұрын
Sorry, I didn't hear where the money for this was coming from...
@cogekacc3 ай бұрын
oil
@powerslide0003 ай бұрын
Our great grand children's backs!
@user-sm3ii5dk1u3 ай бұрын
Tax teachers, social workers and nurses... they're overpaid lol, and make homeless help pound nails for tracks.
@trevorsabo18243 ай бұрын
Us. Who else? $$$ ✌️❤️🇨🇦
@JayHammerCA3 ай бұрын
@@user-sm3ii5dk1u Spoken like someone who has never met or spoken with anyone in any of those professions.. Get a grip and read a newspaper once in a while.