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Eco-lunatic Guilbeault Says No More New Roads · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, you'll never believe it. The Trudeau liberals have found yet another way
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  of wrecking the country. Here's the headline, Feds won't fund new roads,
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  existing network perfectly adequate. Gilbo says, that's Stephen Gilbou and he's the Minister
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  of Environment and climate Change, because of course Canada has a Minister of climate
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  change. And by the way, this is actually him before he got into
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  politics. Yep, that's really him. Maybe we could scrap the Minister of
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  climate change and instead have a Minister of I don't know, minister of not
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  destroying Canada. But I'm sure the Trudeau would see that as counterproductive. So
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  here's an article from the Toronto Sun. Climate Change Minister Stephen Gilbou made an
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  appearance at a fundraising luncheon in Montreal via video link. Has He touted public
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  transit and criticized governments for expanding road networks. Quote. Our government has made
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  the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure. Of course, we will
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  continue to be there for cities, provinces and territories to maintain the existing network,
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  but there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the
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  road network. The analysis we have done, is that the network is perfectly
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  adequate to respond to the needs we have. So apparently he's not actually been
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  on a road in Canada, but anyway, and thanks to a mix of
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  investment in active and public transit, because really, this is what it comes
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  down to. They don't want you owning a car, they want you on
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  a bus, and public transit is great. We should invest in that,
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  but unless you're living downtown somewhere, it's not going to work for most people,
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  especially people with families. But of course, Steven Gobo, the apparently
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  climate messiah, doesn't care about any of that, but he continues. And
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  thanks to a mix of investment in active and public transit and in territorial planning
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  and densification, we can very well achieve our goals of economic, social,
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  and human development without more enlargement of the road network. And I guess the
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  question is whose goals are our goals? I kind of feel like they're just
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  his goals, not so much our goals as in the Canadian people. So
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  Gilbo also said that money spent on asphalt and concrete for road expansions would be
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  better invested in projects that will help fight ken Ye guess ken Ye, guess
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  what it'll help fight. There's only one answer. There's only ever one answer,
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  climate change. He also said we must stop thinking that electric cars will
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  solve all of our problems. Yeah, of course he loves electric cars.
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  It's just that he'd prefer you don't have a car at all. He wants
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  you all in a fifteen minute city, all crammed into tiny little apartments.
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  Don't forget he just talked about that densification. And what is that densification.
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  It's an increase the density of something. Synonyms compaction, compression, concretion,
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  type of concentration. Now I wouldn't say concentration camp, more like concentration apartments
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  or even maybe pods. Yeah, if you're a young Canadian today wanting to
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  start a family, say, you don't have to wonder at what the Trudeau
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  government's plans are for you. It's not a nice little house with the white
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  picket fence, with the kids playing in the backyard with the dog. No,
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  you're getting densified. And I'm guessing that Gilbo does hope that you enjoy
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  listening to your neighbors argue and they're adjoining six hundred square foot apartment. So
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  there's something from Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta. She says, so,
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  now our environment minister wants to cut federal funding for roads because we should
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  all just walk more. Does this minister understand that most Canadians don't live in
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  downtown Montreal. Most of us can't just head out the door in the snow
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  and rain and just walk ten kilometers to work each day. Can we return
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  to the real world, Minister Gilbo? And of course this does bring up
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  the issue of Canada's housing crisis. We keep hearing about all these houses that
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  we're going to be building. Well, guess what. Guess what you need
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  when you're building new housing, you need roads. Now, let's hear from
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  the minister himself, will not be funding for us. That's not that's not
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  what I said. What what what I have said is that the solutions to
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  our transport challenge pass by many different things, including massive investment in public transit,
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  including investment in electrification of transportation. And of course we're funding roads.
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  We have we have programs to fund road What we have said, and maybe
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  I should have been more specific in the past, is that we don't have
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  funds for large projects. So the minister has walked back his original statement,
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  which was no funding for new roads to no funding for large projects, and
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  of course I don't think anybody believes him. And in any case, Canada
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  needs large projects too. You don't get to add millions and millions of people
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  to Canada in a very short period of time without having your infrastructure stretched to
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  the brink. That includes roads, that includes major roads. And as much
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  as the eco lunatic Stephen Gilbo would prefer that we all just I don't know,
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  tear up the roads and have hiking trails, yeah, that's obviously not
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  going to happen. All that's going to happen is that Canada is just gonna
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  get that much worse, which is what happens with every single thing this government
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  does. Anyway, That's all I gotta say about that. Please like,
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