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Originally Posted by FireFly
Does anyone else have issues with cost projections like this? I mean, for real, I can see giving a few million, even hundred million for cost overruns, but a gap of 17 BILLION between the low estimate and high estimate is HUGE. Why don't we just find out how much it will actually cost and go from there?
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It seems like whenever huge projects are undertaken, government/builder estimates are always much lower than the actual cost, so maybe the government is taking this into account with their estimates. Another factor is that a high speed line from Cal to Edm is a ways away and it is tough to make an estimate at this point in time.
However I agree it is pretty ridiculous. To put things into perspective, the Canadian military spending budget was around 18 billion dollars last year.