According to him, Canada and Quebec have no advantage in making compromises on their language policies, nor do Italians, Dutch, Germans, etc. He pointed out that the United States did not ask its other partners for such compromises.
Illustrating the definition of discrimination.
Still a Genius! /s
Great timing! Here's the free 2025 guide for "Cycling in Ontario".
Keep your travel and tourism dollars within Canada! 😊
For sure, we need to work on that. But most people aren't travelling across their province, or even between cities on a regular basis.
They drive their cars around their community. Down the street to the grocery store. Up the road to visit a friend. They might work within 5km of their home and take a large SUV.
That's the reason we have massive parking lots taking up ungodly amount of space, or on street parking instead of bike lanes, or noise and air pollutions near residential areas.
Those personal choices can be modified today, even with whatever infrastructure is present.
And most people don't realize that if we weren't spending so much money on car infrastructure, we'd have more than enough to put towards other forms of transportation - at a benefit to society, which also reduces costs in other areas like healthcare.
Yes, I read it right. 🧐
I don't understand the objection.
People living in rural areas of Canada represent less than 16% of the population (and even fewer drivers, since that number includes children).
Everyone else lives close enough to "everything" and don't need to use their car for "everything".
And people living in cities or the suburbs for sure don't need a large truck.
And people in rural areas don't need 4 lane stroads.
So where is this huge need to continue building things out for more cars?
For what it's worth, I'm often in rural Ontario... On my non-electric bike. Unless I'm hauling a thousand pounds, it seems more than reasonable to see an ebike work quite well in those areas, too.
If you need to use a car or truck, then use a car or truck. Most people don't for the majority of their trips.
That's the difference between ethical governing and the unethical abuse of power.
If you want liberals to "get everything they want", and ignore democracy, they'd have to do it unethically.
Wouldn't it be better if everyone played by the rules, and governed like they are actually working in the best interests of voters?
This is exciting news!
Now, what do we do when our Provincial or Municipal governments become the barrier to housing? Because lord knows that Doug Ford is fully capable of screwing this up.
"Investigate" what? Healthcare professionals don't want to work under a Nazi Regime. What's hard to understand?
The same happened when Nazis controlled Germany, and guess what? They also came to Canada 😁
Just because one step doesn’t get you to your destination, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take that first step.
But the first step shouldn't be to focus on car manufacturing... again.
Bikes aren’t practical in a large number of Canadian cities, especially ones with -30 degree seasons. They aren’t practical for disabled people. They aren’t practical for families with young children.
Says who? With the appropriate infrastructure (i.e. like what you see in Montreal), you can have cycling year-round. Hell, I'm not from Montreal, and have used my bike all winter for errands.
And last summer, I was hauling two grandkids around by bike. It's not hard.
Cars are unaffordable, and will continue to be for most people. Even families who can "afford" a car, are being hurt by their dependency.
And taxpayers all lose when cars are the focus of our transportation network.
A lack of road infrastructure also hobbles emergency services such as ambulances. It reduces the ability of trucks to deliver goods to stores. It reduces the ability for utility crews to service utilities such as power lines and sewers.
I didn't say we should reduce our roads to dirt paths and let it all crumble. But we don't need 18 lane highways or 2 lanes of parking on a four lane road... we are building too much to support gridlock by inducing demand.
Emergency vehicles and delivery trucks benefit by having FEWER drivers on the road. This is a fact.
There are a lot of potential issues with aggressively pursuing what you envision. At the very least you’d need to massively re-work city design and zoning, rebuild a ton of stuff. That will take time.
No, it really doesn't. What takes time (and money) is road widening, constant road repair, figuring out what homes to demolish to make room for another road we don't need to build.
Cities and countries that have de-prioritized cars have done so very quickly and with massive benefits to their communities. See Montreal, Paris, any city in the Netherlands, Vancouver, Columbia (the country!), etc.
It costs much less to build out cycling and public transportation, and it can be done much faster than building out infrastructure just for cars.
Shifting to electric cars will take less time, and be a net ‘win’ for the environment, generally speaking. I see no issue with the first persons response saying we should try to make evs in country.
That's not true at all. We don't need or want people making short trips in an EV. It still puts the community at risk (crashes), it still degrades the road surface, it contributes MORE to "tire dust", still keeps people inactive, still keeps the poor at a disadvantage, still removed "community" from our communities. It's just not a path forward.
I'm not saying we need an all-or-nothing solution. We need to rebalance our transportation network and make transportation more equitable and easier to access. There's no reason why the majority of Canadians can't walk, bike, or bus their way around town for the majority of their errands.
Edit: oops, replied to something else.
I agree that we should still be making as much as we can here, even if they are cars. But lets not make the same mistake we already have... by putting all our eggs into the automotive basket. Cars and car infrastructure are hurting this country.
"45% less plastic and 75% less water!"
But the product they are comparing it to has 90% more detergent...
EDIT: Thank you for pointing the error of my ways, guys.
This article cleared up some misconceptions I had. TIL, there's way more water in liquid detergent than you'd think!
Says and does anti-people things. 🤡