🇨🇦 Three hours to Montreal, three decades to nowhere

Canada’s ruling class can promise a Toronto-Montreal trip in 3 hours, but somehow can’t explain the price tag, the route, or why farmers in Ontario and Quebec are expected to surrender land so Ottawa can cosplay as Europe. After generations of studies and political theatre, Alto is still a glossy concept wrapped in taxpayer bait, as reported.

Steven MacKinnon and the usual central Canadian managerial caste want the prestige project first and the accountability later. Opposition from the Conservatives, the Parti Quebecois, and now even Doug Ford’s PCs tells you this thing reeks. Not because rail is evil, but because Ottawa never builds for national efficiency anymore. It builds for consultant class vanity, regional vote buying, and bureaucratic empire expansion. While the country buckles under housing pressure, infrastructure strain, and Trudeau-era fiscal wreckage, the elites pitch another mega-project with no trust left in the people selling it. Sovereign countries build with purpose. This regime builds press conferences.

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