I think we're now talking about entirely different things: my gripe about US passenger rail is that it's shitty even where it barely overlaps with freight, so talking about freight is a kind of a red herring.
As to Canada's slide into MAGAffication, the sad part is that it's not yet at its peak: think of a pendulum that roughly swings from left to right (and viceversa). Carney is right of Trudeau and the ONLY reason he is prime minister and not PP, is that Trump won in November. I don't think we have seen the last of PP and we will only see his true agenda AFTER he wins the election. My only wish is that he does not get a parliamentary majority when he wins, so he will have to temper his wildest wishes (like terminating the federal financial support for the CBC, which will have long term consequences that most Canadians probably don't even realize, especially those that don't care about it).
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As to Canada's slide into MAGAffication, the sad part is that it's not yet at its peak: think of a pendulum that roughly swings from left to right (and viceversa). Carney is right of Trudeau and the ONLY reason he is prime minister and not PP, is that Trump won in November. I don't think we have seen the last of PP and we will only see his true agenda AFTER he wins the election. My only wish is that he does not get a parliamentary majority when he wins, so he will have to temper his wildest wishes (like terminating the federal financial support for the CBC, which will have long term consequences that most Canadians probably don't even realize, especially those that don't care about it).