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   XPost: misc.taxes, winnipeg.general   
   From: patchmoney@gmx.com   
      
   On 21 Mar 2024 at 21:31:09 GMT, Sharx335 wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-03-21 3:14 p.m., David Dalton wrote:   
   >> (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.   
   >>   
   > Hell will freeze over before *I* "evolve" to public transit. It's   
   > inconvenient, slow, not safe and takes a lot longer to get anywhere.   
      
   In several European countries (and a few others) it's nothing of the sort. So   
   decent public transport *can* be done.   
      
   > Time for you eco-nuts to wake up and stop being so naive. The sky is NOT   
   > falling. Climates have always been changing.  The best PRACTICAL way to   
   > deal with so-called apocalyptic climate change is to reduce population   
   > growth and to ADAPT, repeat ADAPT, and not to beggar the economies of   
   > western nations. ANd look carefully at the lifestyles of your   
   > hypocritical leaders, e.g. Trudeau, AL Gore, and the king of hypocrites,   
   > David Suzuki.   
      
   Partly right, for the wrong reasons (IMVHO).   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK   
      
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