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Canada formally requests renewal of North American free trade pact (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Domestic pressure has been building on the prime minister to reach a deal,

Yeah, that's one of those statements that has been oversimplified to the point of being wrong. The Conservatives are pushing that angle, because of course they are, while other opinions I see are far less interested in rushing to make a deal.

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I wish someone had the guts to add “high speed rail” as a rider to this agreement. It’s ridiculous that so much NAFTA shipping between Canada and Mexico is done via semi trucks.

    https://www.thetruckersreport.com/news/trucks-still-rule-nafta-shipping-says-dot-report/

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Ok, so there's a couple misconceptions here. "High Speed Rail" is a commuter service, not freight. Small, high value goods might be worthwhile on a high speed rail line, but the heavy freight that makes up the bulk of truck traffic is I'll suited for high speed rail.

    The other issue is where the freight is going. A lot of it isn't going far enough to make rail worth it. Take the Windsor border crossings, for example. A large portion of those trucks (if not most) are bringing car parts back and forth between plants in Windsor and Detroit.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Can't build a high speed rail between states. Can't even build one within a state. There's no way we're gonna get one between countries. Oil lobbiests will sue over every tiny thing until the whole project runs out of funding ten times over.

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