How Alto plans to buy out property owners for its high-speed rail plans | CBC News

The Crown corporation behind Canada’s proposed high-speed rail line has released new details on how it plans to expropriate and compensate land owners to carry out the multibillion-dollar project.

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Liberals are now considering privatizing airports.

The phrases "broadening ownership" and "getting full value of our assets" are doing a lot of ideological heavy lifting.

Translation: The things the public built together are being sold to people who can afford to buy them, and investors will extract rent from them forever.

Privatization is a transfer of wealth from everyone to someone.

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Sean Casey on Liberal MPs’ public spat with P.E.I.’s health minister
Prince Edward Island’s four MPs penned a letter this week calling on the province’s health minister, Cory Deagle, to apologize for “mocking the prime minister from the floor of the provincial legislature.” CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin spoke with Charlottetown MP Sean Casey about what the situation means for the relationship between the provincial and federal governme...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7180524?cmp=rss

The Liberals didn't win a mandate to fix healthcare. They won a mandate to manage its collapse.

NL's own health minister said being shut out of pharmacare "speaks volumes about inequity."

Free diabetes meds and contraceptives, but only for the right provinces.

This is what a national pharmacare program looks like when the people running it don't actually believe in it.

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3 new Liberal MPs take their seats after byelections that secured majority
There are now 174 members on the government benches after five MPs defected to the Liberals over the last six months.
#Canada #Politics #Byelections #HouseofCommons
https://globalnews.ca/news/11818636/mark-carney-byelections-majority-new-mps/
3 new Liberal MPs take their seats after byelections that secured majority
There are now 174 members on the government benches after five MPs defected to the Liberals over the last six months.
#Canada #Politics #Byelections #HouseofCommons
https://globalnews.ca/news/11818636/mark-carney-byelections-majority-new-mps/
3 new Liberal MPs take their seats after byelections that secured majority
There are now 174 members on the government benches after five MPs defected to the Liberals over the last six months.
#Canada #Politics #Byelections #HouseofCommons
https://globalnews.ca/news/11818636/mark-carney-byelections-majority-new-mps/
3 new Liberal MPs take their seats after byelections that secured majority
There are now 174 members on the government benches after five MPs defected to the Liberals over the last six months.
#Canada #Politics #Byelections #HouseofCommons
https://globalnews.ca/news/11818636/mark-carney-byelections-majority-new-mps/
NDP's U.S. arms-control bill fails, 15 Liberal MPs break rank with government
An NDP private member's bill that would have ended exemptions from Canada's export-control regime for weapons and ammunition destined for the U.S. failed to pass at the House of Commons on Wednesday, though it garnered the support of 15 Liberal MPs who sided against their government.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-bill-loopholes-arms-exports-9.7124756?cmp=rss
Liberal MPs to hold call Friday as caucus raises concerns about Carney's shifting Iran position
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to brief Liberal MPs on Friday morning about the government's position on the war that has now engulfed Iran and surrounding countries in the Middle East, after some both privately and publicly raised concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney's initial statement regarding the ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-iran-liberal-caucus-9.7116694?cmp=rss