I recently had a random observation.

My folks own a cottage 1.5h away from smack middle of Toronto (I drive it often)

We call it a cottage because it has no running water, no broadband, overhead electricity lines that literally gets knocked out during bad storms.

All of our neighbors are in the same boat. Thousands of southern rural Ontarians live like this.

The difference is that they live this way full year round.

We are so behind as a country in infrastructure that it's not even funny.

To be developing those rural land you talk about will probably cost $100B over three decades at the rate we build things.

I'm not hopeful.