Cyborganism@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 4 days agoWhat business domains, services, organizations should be nationalized to ensure Canadian sovereignty?message-squaremessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up141
arrow-up141message-squareWhat business domains, services, organizations should be nationalized to ensure Canadian sovereignty?Cyborganism@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 4 days agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squareCyborganism@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 days agoAbsolutely. CN used to be a crown corp but was privatized in the 1990’s under Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives. Thatcherism and neoliberalism at its finest. CP Rail has always been private. It’s a key infrastructure that should definitely be publicly owned. Via Rail is also a crown corp though.
minus-squareexcursion22@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoVia Rail operations are at the mercy of CP and CN given their ownership (and lack of maintenance) of the tracks, though.
minus-squareArxCyberwolf@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoPrecisely why CN needs to be re-nationalized. They’re in the way of getting half-decent passenger rail going.
minus-squareexcursion22@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI think Via needs to make substantial changes to become half-decent still, but that would still improve it.
Rail.
Absolutely.
CN used to be a crown corp but was privatized in the 1990’s under Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives. Thatcherism and neoliberalism at its finest.
CP Rail has always been private.
It’s a key infrastructure that should definitely be publicly owned.
Via Rail is also a crown corp though.
Via Rail operations are at the mercy of CP and CN given their ownership (and lack of maintenance) of the tracks, though.
Precisely why CN needs to be re-nationalized. They’re in the way of getting half-decent passenger rail going.
I think Via needs to make substantial changes to become half-decent still, but that would still improve it.