Liberals to spend $5B on Alto rail planning, Poilievre urges cancellation
In a report based on public consultations in Ontario and Quebec, Alto acknowledged concerns over cost, with many participants skeptical the project could be completed on budget and on schedule.
Pierre Poilievre blasted the Liberals’ $90-billion high-speed rail plan as a taxpayer-funded gravy train, accusing Ottawa of enriching insiders with billions in consulting fees while Canadians struggle with rising costs.
“The Liberals are promising to spend $5 billion over the next year just to study the idea, not to build a single inch of rail,” Poilievre told reporters on Monday.
“A bunch of Liberal insiders, activists, lawyers will get rich, making single moms, seniors and small businesses poor.”
Poilievre said the project would take 15 years to build, cost families $8,000 in taxes, and mainly shift travellers from planes rather than reduce road traffic.
“Ninety-five percent of Canadians will never even use it, and it won’t take a single car off the road,” he added.
