Iggy Moment

Ignatieff picks the train

Posted: October 27, 2009, 5:46 PM by NP Editor

Let's play pretend.

You are the leader of the opposition, and you dearly want to become prime minister.

The country is facing a budget deficit somewhere north of $50 billion. You have promised to eliminate it. You have also promised no new taxes (sort of) and no cuts to any important program. (No instance of unimportant program has ever been identified by a governing party in Ottawa.)

Someone asks you a hypothetical question. If you were prime minister, which would you commit to first:

1. $175 million for a new hockey arena in Quebec, so it can try to attract an NHL hockey team

2. $20 billion, roughly, for a high-speed train from Quebec City to Windsor.

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