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It depends... south of what ? Ex South of the stuff north of civilization .... likely not so much. Who the heck even lives out there. The whole village of 10 trying to remind us they are still out there?
This would likely be a great time for people that choose to live in these places to explain exactly what they are doing up there?
Re: Filling this space with immigrants .... all I got to say is that if someone see pictures of where the governments hopes to relocate them .... especially in the winter ... I think a lot of people might reconsider ex well that dictator really sucks .... but at least we won't freeze to death. That may be a true test of how badly someone want to leave this current situation to come to Canada. "Would you be willing to live in North Canada for the first 5 years". If you survive after that you get automatic citizenship."
I don't see what the advantage of that is as you can become a citizen in 4 years at the moment while living wherever you want in the country.
I don't see what the advantage of that is as you can become a citizen in 4 years at the moment while living wherever you want in the country.
He was talking about someone who is not qualified to be a permenant resident in the first place, and if he is willing to live in the north for 5 years, then citizenship is awarded.
I think it is a great idea Just needs to making sure they have to be present in the north for the entire 5 years. However, it is impossible to monitor.
He was talking about someone who is not qualified to be a permenant resident in the first place, and if he is willing to live in the north for 5 years, then citizenship is awarded.
I think it is a great idea Just needs to making sure they have to be present in the north for the entire 5 years. However, it is impossible to monitor.
He was talking about someone who is not qualified to be a permenant resident in the first place, and if he is willing to live in the north for 5 years, then citizenship is awarded.
I think it is a great idea Just needs to making sure they have to be present in the north for the entire 5 years. However, it is impossible to monitor.
Not as much as you might think. Much of the north is not easy to get in and out of.
Canada has definitely not provided the proper infrastructure that it should have provided for the North. There are no paved roads up North, indeed there isn't even a paved road out East along the St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to the Atlantic (route 138 still has a long way to go).
It is a country's duty to build appropriate infrastructure. In the 1950's the US built the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System which connects all the 48 continental states in a gridlike pattern. It was an engineering feat with massive tunnels through the Rocky Mountains, bridges over vast swampland in Louisiana, roads across deserts in Arizona that get to 120 in the summer, etc... By around 1975 most of the system was built-out.
In Canada, it seems that each province has its own highway nomenclature and that is a shame. There is the autoroute system in Quebec, the signage which looks like interstate highways, but the signs in Ontario and the other provinces are vastly different. In reality, Quebec probably has the best controlled access system, with most of the southern portion of the province covered. Ontario is greatly improving in this aspect.
However, as you get further north, you see the problem. Traffic from Toronto to Winnipeg has a choke-point on the Trans-Canada Highway. That is just a poor way to have infrastructure designed. There should be no less than maybe a half dozen ways to get across Ontario.
When you go to the Far North, only the Yukon has viable highways and that's because of the US building the Alaska Highway. There is a highway to Yellowknife and fortunately they built a bridge over the main river crossing, but it's sparsely populated otherwise.
Moving to Manitoba, it's a shame there. There should be a road up to Churchill. There is a viable tourism industry, indeed I have thought of going up there to watch the polar bears. Canada is not allowing that industry to take off.
As far as subsidizing food, I don't really think that's the government's role, unless it's for baby formula or the provisions for families that cannot otherwise support themselves at all. Instead, the government should focus foremost on good roads, then on good schools, and on good defense. It really is insane crazy that there is a chokepoint in Ontario for the Trans-Canada highway, that route 138 in Quebec doesn't stretch all the way to Labrador, and that Churchill doesn't have an all weather roads.
Canada has definitely not provided the proper infrastructure that it should have provided for the North. There are no paved roads up North, indeed there isn't even a paved road out East along the St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to the Atlantic (route 138 still has a long way to go).
It is a country's duty to build appropriate infrastructure. In the 1950's the US built the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System which connects all the 48 continental states in a gridlike pattern. It was an engineering feat with massive tunnels through the Rocky Mountains, bridges over vast swampland in Louisiana, roads across deserts in Arizona that get to 120 in the summer, etc... By around 1975 most of the system was built-out.
In Canada, it seems that each province has its own highway nomenclature and that is a shame. There is the autoroute system in Quebec, the signage which looks like interstate highways, but the signs in Ontario and the other provinces are vastly different. In reality, Quebec probably has the best controlled access system, with most of the southern portion of the province covered. Ontario is greatly improving in this aspect.
However, as you get further north, you see the problem. Traffic from Toronto to Winnipeg has a choke-point on the Trans-Canada Highway. That is just a poor way to have infrastructure designed. There should be no less than maybe a half dozen ways to get across Ontario.
When you go to the Far North, only the Yukon has viable highways and that's because of the US building the Alaska Highway. There is a highway to Yellowknife and fortunately they built a bridge over the main river crossing, but it's sparsely populated otherwise.
Moving to Manitoba, it's a shame there. There should be a road up to Churchill. There is a viable tourism industry, indeed I have thought of going up there to watch the polar bears. Canada is not allowing that industry to take off.
As far as subsidizing food, I don't really think that's the government's role, unless it's for baby formula or the provisions for families that cannot otherwise support themselves at all. Instead, the government should focus foremost on good roads, then on good schools, and on good defense. It really is insane crazy that there is a chokepoint in Ontario for the Trans-Canada highway, that route 138 in Quebec doesn't stretch all the way to Labrador, and that Churchill doesn't have an all weather roads.
They need to get on this and pronto.
Very good points.
Really agree with you on the Trans Canada Highway between Toronto and Winnipeg.
Should be controlled access 4 lanes the entire way. I've read there are plans. Glacially slow
though, should have been completed years ago.
In southern Ontario it is still advantageous to go thru the US to travel Winnipeg,
or anywhere in western Canada ...and that is a real shame.
I don't like crossing the border twice, so I usually travel on the Trans Canada but
it is a real ordeal ...by the time I reach Thunder Bay I'm exhausted.
For a relatively wealthy country Canada's highway infrastructure is poor at best.
Moving to Manitoba, it's a shame there. There should be a road up to Churchill. There is a viable tourism industry, indeed I have thought of going up there to watch the polar bears. Canada is not allowing that industry to take off.
The entire population of Manitoba is 1.2 million and the population of Churchill is only about 800. I guess the question is whether the taxpayer cost to build and maintain an all weather road is justified.
Canada has definitely not provided the proper infrastructure that it should have provided for the North. There are no paved roads up North, indeed there isn't even a paved road out East along the St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to the Atlantic (route 138 still has a long way to go).
It is a country's duty to build appropriate infrastructure. In the 1950's the US built the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System which connects all the 48 continental states in a gridlike pattern. It was an engineering feat with massive tunnels through the Rocky Mountains, bridges over vast swampland in Louisiana, roads across deserts in Arizona that get to 120 in the summer, etc... By around 1975 most of the system was built-out.
In Canada, it seems that each province has its own highway nomenclature and that is a shame. There is the autoroute system in Quebec, the signage which looks like interstate highways, but the signs in Ontario and the other provinces are vastly different. In reality, Quebec probably has the best controlled access system, with most of the southern portion of the province covered. Ontario is greatly improving in this aspect.
However, as you get further north, you see the problem. Traffic from Toronto to Winnipeg has a choke-point on the Trans-Canada Highway. That is just a poor way to have infrastructure designed. There should be no less than maybe a half dozen ways to get across Ontario.
When you go to the Far North, only the Yukon has viable highways and that's because of the US building the Alaska Highway. There is a highway to Yellowknife and fortunately they built a bridge over the main river crossing, but it's sparsely populated otherwise.
Moving to Manitoba, it's a shame there. There should be a road up to Churchill. There is a viable tourism industry, indeed I have thought of going up there to watch the polar bears. Canada is not allowing that industry to take off.
As far as subsidizing food, I don't really think that's the government's role, unless it's for baby formula or the provisions for families that cannot otherwise support themselves at all. Instead, the government should focus foremost on good roads, then on good schools, and on good defense. It really is insane crazy that there is a chokepoint in Ontario for the Trans-Canada highway, that route 138 in Quebec doesn't stretch all the way to Labrador, and that Churchill doesn't have an all weather roads.
They need to get on this and pronto.
LOL. This post is hilarious. A stranger from another country with 10 times the population and wealth of Canada is trying to shame Canada into meeting the standards he thinks should be in place so he can be a tourist and go look at polar bears.
For your information Canada has built the infrastructure it's currently capable of that is affordable and appropriate enough to the population of Canada. You can get back to us about Canada's infrastructure when Canada has a population and wealth 10 times what it is now.
The entire population of Manitoba is 1.2 million and the population of Churchill is only about 800. I guess the question is whether the taxpayer cost to build and maintain an all weather road is justified.
The best government expenditures are on roads. It grants mobility to the people up there and allows food to be trucked in instead of flown in, greatly reducing the cost.
From a cost standpoint, the biggest "bang for the buck" would be the Trans Canada Highway from Toronto to Winnipeg. I read that the traffic is quite high but the road is substandard. The Trans Canada Highway should be controlled access from coast to coast. You don't really have interstate highways but at least Trans Canada should be controlled access.
I was reading about when they originally built the Trans Canada in that area and it was an engineering marvel for the time, with lots of rock blasting of the shield and that was at a time when technology was poor.
It's a real shame that Canada doesn't care about such a strategic highway.
The good news is that the twinning of TC from Barrie to Sudbury is happening at a good clip.
The main bottleneck is between Nipigon and Red Rock where the TC is two lanes and the northern and southern route are combined. They at least need to twin that section.
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? Ex South of the stuff north of civilization .... likely not so much. Who the heck even lives out there. The whole village of 10 trying to remind us they are still out there? 
Just needs to making sure they have to be present in the north for the entire 5 years. However, it is impossible to monitor.
