• Eiri
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    6 hours ago

    Ugh. Why did we ever privatize rail. People would riot if we privatized the highway network, and yet…

    • ikidd@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      When were the railways ever not private in Canada? One barely solvent passenger service that’s a crown corp hardly constituted nationalized rail.

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        2 hours ago

        Wasn’t it originally a huge public undertaking? It was my understanding that the rails and CN began their lives in public ownership before being privatized.

        Did I misunderstand things?

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      Because the rails were there before Canada!