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laudable goal. I suspect it will end up like most other Canadian procurement projects.

also why all the love for Canadian Pacific rail?

>also why all the love for Canadian Pacific rail?

The Canadian Pacific rail connected the country east to west, was a major milestone in the country's history: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Canadian_Pacifi...>

While that's true, it does seem to be a strange thing to glamorize now, since as much as it was an engineering accomplishment, it was also arguably a genocidal pursuit, and it's doubtful the sort of projects the government has in mind now will be as "nation building" as expropriating the entirety of Western Canada and letting a single private entity have as much power as CPR does.

yeah that ^ was kinda my point.

Amazing accomplishment, but now CP is CPKC and is just another giant megacorp that answers to the US FRA or Mexican rail authorities as much as it does the Canadian government.

Carney is a bankster and he's not going to be throwing stuff out there to help the common man first.

Why is HN so pessimistic?

Is setting expectations based on track record considered pessimism?

Incessant nit picking, negativity and doubt casting is my issue.

And Canada is unrecognizable these days. Why should I think past performance is indicative of future success?

You're right, it is unrecognisable, and past performance is not indicative of future success. It will be much worse than past performance.

Sorry, not optimistic enough I suppose :(

As a Canadian I see little reason for optimism

> Incessant nit picking, negativity and doubt casting is my issue.

That has unfortunately been very common internet culture since 2020. It was there before the pandemic, but post-pandemic internet never recovered its full whimsy and veered headfirst into a depressive state. Probably says something about everyone's general mood.

The parent comment just says it'll perform similar to how past similarly-shaped things performed, without saying what that past performance is. If that implies pessimism, that's not HN's fault.

Give me a break.

I think they missed "laudable." My first read I thought it said laughable too—it's an easy misread that set a completely different tone for the rest of the comment.

That says "laudable" not "laughable." They were actually complimenting the effort, even if some folks misread it

It's the default for any non USA story.

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