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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   (Canada)   
      
   Instead of the federal government giving back much of the Carbon   
   Tax in rebates, they should direct the money to improving public   
   transit nationally, including in rural areas.   
      
   For example, in recent years there has been a loss of Greyhound   
   in Western Canada, and that contributes to the ongoing crisis   
   of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, since   
   many of them resort to hitchhiking.   
      
   On a local (Newfoundland) basis, several years ago there was   
   a loss of Fleetline bus, which used to operate on the coastal   
   Conception Bay Highway between St. John's and Conception   
   Bay North, and which was a valuable service fo students   
   travelling home for the weekend and for seniors and others   
   going into the city for medical appointments or shopping.   
      
   But of course there could also be an improvement in public   
   transit in urban (including small cities) and suburban areas.   
      
   And indeed, the planned transition to electric cars   
   is not practical; instead (or as well) there must be a   
   rapid evolution of private cars to public transit, probably   
   including shared/communal cars in less dense areas.   
      
   And I think the NDP and Green Party would support the   
   LIberals in such an initiative, maybe even to the extent of   
   forming a coalition before the next election.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   â€œAnd the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)