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You're right.. no one commutes from Alert to Iqaluit daily... but how about the essential and frequent road and rail traffic from Vancouver to Calgary, Calgary to Edmonton, Calgary to Regina, etc.
Germany's land size, with 82 million people could fit in Alberta from Edmonton to the US border. Ditto Japan and its 127 million people. There are significant advantages to density that Canada simply can never enjoy, particularly Western and Northern Canada. The time (and fuel) required to ship goods to cities and towns simply does not compare between Canada (a net supplier of fuel) and Japan (a net purchaser of fuel). Shooting the country in the foot for political ideology is very irresponsible.
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Obviously I'm not talking about commercial shipping between major Canadian population centres. My posts concern daily commutes from home to work, and in most of those cases, the average Canadian is no worse than the average European in terms of distance travelled.
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Maybe he's never been to Europe or Asia? Or is it that he's never rode on Calgary Transit?
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In the past five years I've been to the UK and France, and I use Calgary Transit frequently.
One thing that's really obvious as soon as you arrive in Europe is that
nobody drives a large, inefficient vehicle unless it's absolutely required for work. Owning a truck or SUV to serve as a commuter vehicle is completely unheard of over there, precisely because gas taxes are so much higher.