Subhead:Ontario landowners and farmers are at risk of losing their property and livelihoods, as anger grows over the controversial high-speed rail plan that Conservatives are now strongly pushing back against.#
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre joined local MP Philip Lawrence at the Indian River Cattle Company to declare unequivocal opposition to the Liberal government’s proposed $90 billion Alto high-speed rail project.
Speaking at the generational cattle farm in Indian River, just east of Peterborough, Poilievre was unequivocal: “This is another example of a ridiculous pie-in-the-sky Liberal spending initiative that only got worse under Prime Minister Carney.”
The Alto plan has been advanced by the Liberals, aiming to link Toronto to Quebec City with a high-speed line with a mandate of five stops along the corridor.
Pristine and ecologically sensitive areas, prime farmland, private property rights, and rural communities are all being put at risk by this mega-project that will saddle taxpayers with massive costs for a project expected to run perpetual losses.
“The Carney Liberals are forcing every family in Canada to spend $8,000 tax dollars on a project that two-thirds say they will never use,” Poilievre said, vowing to axe the project altogether should the Conservatives form government.
“If it ever gets built… the Carney Liberals plan to force families to pay higher taxes every single year into eternity because it is expected to lose money forever,” he added, noting that the project would see the Liberals “confiscate farmland and private property, disrupting communities and harming the quality of life of local residents who will not even get to use the train because it won’t have any stops near their homes.”
