Monday, June 22, 2009

349...We Love To Talk In Canada

Talk.

And talk.

And talk some more.

In my town, Ottawa, we have been talking about moving the Central Canada Exhibition, The Ex, since the middle of World War Two. Still at Lansdowne Park. We have been talking about building rapid transit, a subway, something something, in this town since, minimum, the 1974 mayoralty eleciton. Still no rapid transit.

Parliament Hill is in my town and on the Hill they have been talking about buliding a superfast supertrain from Quebec City to Windsor as long as I can remember and I can remember back into the 1960's.

Here we go again.

Mike De Souza of Canwest News Services writes this morning that Joe Volpe, the Liberal Party transportation critic, says that now is the time for such a train and that it would aid in nation building. Even though they are separatists, the BQ follows the Canadian way and to that end the Bloc Quebecois transportation critic, Mario Laframboise dit "no way", unless of course, the nation you are talking about is Quebec and then what do we need a train for anyhow?

Oy f'ing vey.

Do something already.

WFDS

1 comment:

  1. Typical, something needs to be done so it takes about 5 to 10 years or forever to get even started, but managing to build useless things is pretty much the most common thing. Same thing can be seen in Vancouver with the preparations for the Olympics, everything is being build soooo slow. How are we ever going to make it in time?

    Take care, Julie

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