If the island airport is any guide, the feds are reluctant to exercise regulatory authority even in areas where they have unambiguous sole constitutional authority to do so
Chad Leddy
Railways are so purely a federal matter that municipal (read: provincial) land use planning powers cannot control railways at all, something recently reaffirmed at the Supreme Court regarding a Halton Region case.
Now POLITICALLY is a different story.
John Michael McGrath
The Parti Québécois has followed the federal Conservative Party in opposing high-speed rail between Toronto and Quebec City.
I’m not sure how much power the provinces have to stop federal projects like this?
But they’re currently favoured to win the next election in October.
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The leader of the Parti Québécois Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says, if elected, his government would prevent the province from being involved in the high-speed rail train, which would link Quebec City to...
