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Noah Jarvis: Doug Ford should block the Liberal high-speed rail boondoggle

The $90 billion price tag is sure to rise, and whole tracts of private property will need to be taken. It's simply not worth it

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford shouldn’t sit around while the federal government burns taxpayer money on a high-speed rail line in his backyard. He should try to stop it.

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The proposed Alto high-speed rail line would be 1,000 kilometres long, running from Toronto to Quebec City. The feds say the line would cost taxpayers up to $90 billion. That’s $2,170 per Canadian or $8,680 for a family of four. But there are lots of reasons not to trust the government’s estimate.

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Alto has yet to come up with a concrete plan for the high-speed rail line. The company has only demarcated a 10-kilometre-wide corridor that the line could hypothetically run through. No route has been decided on, and the Carney government hasn’t determined how many stops the line will have.

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