Seventy years on, apparently the folks around Mark Carney are under that impression too! So what's been happening lo these seven decades of wasted time? Well, nothing, obviously, but why?
It's not as if modern infrastructure hasn't been built in other remote parts of the world. The Russians have enjoyed road access to their arctic since motorized transport was invented, so what's our problem? Obviously, laying down 500 miles of gravel isn't all that far up the tech ladder for a nation almost near the front of the pack in AI and quantum compute.
The think tank here at Falling Downs has studied the matter for years, and the answer is chrystal clear. The reason this great nation, a proud and resilient land of immigrants who once built a railroad from sea-to-shining-sea in ten years, can't build a 500 mile gravel road in seventy, is because of our CANADIAN VALUES!
Yes, unlike our adversaries, we are a DEMOCRACY where citizens have HUMAN RIGHTS. If a citizen in Russia were to object to a gravel road, he or she would be shot dead in the town square as an example to the rest of the villagers. You rarely hear about that sort of thing happening in Canada, where everyone enjoys the basic human right of tying up development in frivolous litigation for years. And btw, Canada is so forward looking on citizens rights you'll get to enjoy them even if you just strolled down Roxham Road last week.
Or take the Chinese Communists. Sure, they may have built more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined (and every inch of it with stolen IP), but ask yourself, are their people free?
There you have it, people of Canada!
You can have freedom and human rights, or you can have gravel roads. Sometimes difficult decisions must be taken
