Unless the products are made in the US, wouldn’t there be no tariffs for products made elsewhere?

In any case, it doesn’t make sense for things not made in Canada to be mislabeled as such

It’s kind of ironic that the buyout of the 407 and removing tolls outright is considered a traffic capacity solution when the central part of the highway does get busy during rush hour, but not so busy to the point where volume slows down the flow of traffic.

But definitely I can also see how that’s a popular move given how the average voter would believe that traffic would flow so much better without tolls without realizing the implication that more people (myself included) would be more drawn to using it.

Not saying I’m completely against it, since the masses need to be won over anyways. I also think that there’s benefits to traffic outside of peak times, to an extent.

I feel a preemptive pain when I receive a message, almost as if I’m going to get yelled at for taking too long to reply or for not fully understanding the message from every contextual angle possible to understand a hidden meaning that I’m supposed to infer from, or for expressing the wrong emotion/tone.

It even happens when I just see the message notification

Welp

Even if a transit infrastructure project is announced and then funded right after an election, it would take up most of a term for the pre-project work to be completed before shovels even hit the ground. There’s utilities that would need to be mapped and relocated, land to expropriate to start, which I believe has to happen before contracts are signed.

Then there’s always going to be a vocal opposition group throwing obstacles in a major project, whether it’s because there’s no train station serving villages and hamlets, or the sight of a train will ruin people’s views of sprawling parking lots, or groups of people whose land is being expropriated at fair market value not wanting to give up property and going through legal challenges which take time to sort.

Even writing this out, it seems like a transit project does take a great deal of political will to push through, especially before shovels hit the ground.

With our current political representation setup, a big swing in majority governments means that an opposing party in power can just rip up contracts and pay out the penalty fees (or legislate away recourse for a project cancellation) which takes much less effort and provides an immediate win for their side.