Unfortunately, the prime minister won’t endorse his minister.

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    As a car enthusiast, yes, please! I enjoy pleasure cruises on sunny weekends in my summer car, but let’s treat it like the luxury it is: expensive, heavily taxed, and not required to get from A-B. These policies and investments would make getting around more pleasant for everyone, and make the road that much more enjoyable to use on recreational occasions. I can assure you that what I love about driving is not from being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and emitting tons of emissions using fuel whose monetary cost doesn’t include externalized costs.

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        I won’t disagree with you. I interpret the Minister’s remarks as suggesting that we should make it so that at least half of Quebecoise have the option of going carless, and choose to take it. I don’t think anyone is seriously advocating for a ban on cars without any investment in alternatives.

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        Not literally anyone. Poor people don’t require cars. Funny, right? How do poor people manage without a car OR money, when everyone else apparently needs both?

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            If you were poor, you wouldn’t have a car. Like tens of thousands of other people in Ontario, I survive on 13k a year. How many km do you think I walk (or rather bike because I’m not a total moron and I’m fortunate enough to still own one) in a year to get groceries? It’s more viable than fucking starving.

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    Here’s an easy way to do it. Tax everything to do with cars - licenses, registrations, fuel, fluids (oil, transmission, coolant, etc.), tires, and insurance – and direct 100% of that money into public transit projects - increasing frequency and reliability of existing service, adding new services and routes, and offsetting fees for users. The best transit is cheap, fast, and good.

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      One the parties in opposition suggested a tax for power-hungry cars and they got attacked on it during the last campaign. The population must accept the difficult choice, because the status quo is not sustainable.

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    1 year ago

    More renewable energy , less fossil fuels

    More density, less sprawl

    More transit, less cars