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I've had enough discussions with people on lemmy so far, where they demand I source/cite a bunch of stuff, while they choose not to cite anything. So I'm not overly fussed, and I find your response kinda funny given how the site seems to trend.

I'm fine with people stating opinions and not sourcing stuff, but to that effect it doesn't make all that much sense to try and pick apart an opposing opinion without citing things, if you're wanting to get into a back and forth. If people want to 'dream' about some 'Freedom city' that's designed with eco sustainability in mind from the ground up, that's great, but it'd need to stay in the realm of fantasy until it's costed/proven viable.

Like in his response he goes on about montreal's infrastructure, but doesn't acknowledge that Quebec receives the most in equalization payments by far as a province -- the amount of money that province receives, as the second largest in the country, has often been a bone of contention from the West. Most likely if they have the funds to build a bunch of that stuff in Montreal, it's because of these sorts of uneven supports driven by the federal parties wanting to cozy up to Quebec, moreso than it being realistically viable for a small town in northern BC/Alberta. I don't need to "prove" that explicitly, because I'm not the one arguing Montreal as the poster child of his approach -- so he/she/they should be providing that information in more detail for consideration, if wanting to convince readers that ditching cars is the way to go.

There's an old line where extreme claims require extreme evidence/proof -- so on this one, calling for abandoning cars, is a far more extreme change than saying we should switch to in-canada EV production. The onus of providing evidence is on the other poster.