Environment
This will happen only when a route is chosen.
What is an environmental assessment.
Modifies the Expropriation Act to speed up land acquisition for high-speed rail projects.
What is Part 5, Division 5 of Bill C15?
This struggling Crown corporation faces chronic operational challenges and owns Alto.
What is VIA Rail Canada?
90 billion dollars
What is a ridiculous cost downloaded to Canadian taxpayers?
A permanent structure that will grossly impede both human and wildlife movement.
What is 12ft high fencing along a 1,000km track?
The Crown is not required to negotiate or attempt to purchase land before initiating expropriation for the rail corridor.
What is Elimination of Purchase Attempts?
Year 48.
How long will it take for Alto's high-speed train to break even.
A UNESCO-designated biosphere at risk of devasation if a high-speed train is built through it.
What is the Frontenac Arch Biosphere?
People without reliable internet.
Who have Alto forgot to include during the consultation process?
A highly toxic chemical that naturally leeches from concrete and has been found pooling at HS2 construction sites in Britain.
What is chromium 6?
These have never appeared in any ALTO public document to date.
What are cold-climate engineering, unstable ground (Leda clay), and road severance?
European rail is in part successful because of this.
What is passenger-first legislation?