🇨🇦 Farmers Fighting Liberal High-Speed Rail Plan That Threatens Their Land Before a Single Byelection Vote Is Cast

With crucial byelections on the horizon, Canadian farmers are pushing back against the Liberal high-speed rail corridor plan that cuts through agricultural land — and the timing is not subtle. The Carney government is pressing ahead with infrastructure announcements timed to electoral cycles, while farmers whose land sits in the project's path are being told to get out of the way of progress.

This is the Liberal playbook unchanged from the Trudeau years: announce a massive infrastructure project with globalist optics — high-speed rail, green corridors, urban connectivity — and let rural Canada absorb the cost. Farmers do not vote Liberal in large numbers, so their land, their livelihoods, and their objections are a manageable political externality. The rail plan polls well in downtown Toronto. That is the entire analysis. The people who actually grow Canada's food are an obstacle to be managed, not a constituency to be heard.

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