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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
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That's not an "article", it's an opinion piece. And it plays fast and loose with the facts. For example, the possible high-speed train to go from Windsor to Quebec City is being funded by the provinces with no federal money. Dion has been supportive of this endeavor as it will get a lot of cars off the road. He just throws in that Dion's support for the project suggests that he's going to throw money at it. It's not part of the platform, nobody has even suggested that they would chip in, but the author just makes that assumption.
And yes, the Liberals did get the budget under control by cutting transfers to the provinces - meaning health care and education cuts - but I don't know which of these you want cut instead:
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