Canada Has A Serious Transportation / Geography Problem
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- The difficulty in actually getting around Canada, explained
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That $150 rail pass thing was in celebration of Canada turning 150, and not only was it limited quantity, it was only available to people under 25 years old.
I thought it was the wildest scandal on every front. Did you apply to get one and/or get one?
Should have been for over 150’s
Free for military! Was nice
The entire thing sold in 2 hours and the website crashed that's why they had to limited
I managed to get one and go from Vancouver to Halifax, but it was insane how hard it was to get. Not to mention the crazy forrest fires in BC totally messed up the schedule. Plus the fact that the VIA has to pull over for every freight train that goes by because the rails are private :(
Montreal is the second biggest canadian city, not quebec.
Came here to comment that and you beat me to it
Lmao the way he says Montreal
@@kamoooosa haha yeah I thought someone wrote it before me, I checked and no one did, So i did
Montreal is pronounced "King's Hill" -- if the French prefer to translate English to French, English-speakers should return the favor.
StudioGamezTAB maybe if you’re only counting the city proper. but if you count the metropolitan area, I’m pretty sure Vancouver is #3.
"Air Canada is an airline I'd really like to fly"
Anyone who has ever flown Air Canada: No you don't.
Graham Montgomery ^
why is it so bad?
Tomatoes Are Evil it’s just like US carriers but slightly nicer.
@@bencns I haven't been in US
Tomatoes Are Evil they always lose your luggage and they are expensive AF
"Unprofitable, impractical, expensive - and still funded by the government"
Welcome to Canada! Bienvenue au Canada!
P.S. I'm living in Canada (about to get citizenship). Open a private airport to rival Toronto Pearson, and do it today!
P.S.S. Anyone can hold any political position in Canada so long as you hold citizenship, born here or otherwise. The last census in 2016 showed that 21.6% of the Canadian population was foreign born. Unfortunately it is not easier for commonwealth to become citizens (but perhaps look into CANZUK).
Wasn’t someone planning to open another airport in Toronto in the Pickering area?
You also gotta know French to get high office
@@Annadog40 not in ontario like at ford
TransCanada Highway was not built as a concession to have others join Confederation. The railway was. Also, Provinces, not States, please.
It was made so the US couldn't take some of the land
Lee Keybum it was to unite to east to the west
DatCanadianSimcrafter yea he was taking about the railway at that point he just said highway. He also called the highway the railway at least one. I give him credit he does these in one take
Calm down
The worst part is Greyhound is no longer going to operate west of Ontario. They are by far the biggest bus service in the county, and in many cases the only way to get to some towns without your own car. Apparently they weren't making enough money, so now there won't be anyway to travel to many places in Western Canada, especially to multiple destinations through one system. Western Canada was basically built from the rail, most communities were connected by train. Last year for Canada's 150th anniversary, Via Rail offered cross country tickets for $150 and crashed the site as soon as it went on sale. They increased the number of available tickets but still didn't meet demand. It seems like our politicians aren't even looking at rail fir public transportation.
West of Sudbury. There are2 time zones between there and the Western border of Ontario.
Good riddance to Greyhoud... Hopefully theyll go under and a better service can take its place.\
Bruh, nobody takes greyhound across Canada, you're supposed to take ViaRail.
Canada is a massive country with relatively very few people. That's an expensive conundrum for its citizens when it comes to the infrastructure outside of the major cities.
all canadians live within 1h drive of a major city fact. drive around the country ull see what i mean
Same deal in Australia.
Matthew Pajda I lived 3 hours from grande prairie Alberta. 5 for Edmonton. 7 hours from Calgary. In other words I lived on a reservation that is rather isolated.
@@user-mg7lt1hj6x thats great. 95% of all canadians live within is what i should have put. The Northern population also lives around some sort of major regional town. Its employment that drives us away from home
Yeah, thats res life though.@@user-mg7lt1hj6x
The overflight fees are because if a flight is flying from USA to Europe its shorter to fly over Canada because of the curve of the earth. So they make a lot of money that comes from flights that never land in Canada
How much per flight?
Some flight between US cities also go through Canada-and not just the ones to Alaska.
LA to Paris can stop in Canada to refuel because it's cheaper
"curve of the earth" except the earth isn't curved XD
@@crystallineentity7698 Even if it was flat, the straightest path from US to Europe is through Canada.
It's not just the initial cost of building thousands of kilometers of roads in remote areas ( with no intermediate builtup areas to serve as infrastructure and supply lines) that is the problem - the extreme climate (freeze thaw cycle) damages them, and it massively increases costs to maintain the roads in working conditions year after year after year.
Yeah, it's best not to build them and just fly in planes.
Nice. Fun fact ... Canada has the largest coastline in the world.
Isla Durrant And yet, it has no merchant marine.
And most of that is frozen......most of " that Coastline" is in the Northern Islands above the Arctic Circle.
But we've got tons of FRESH CLEAN WATER .
It would be ever longer if they had Alaska.
No France does cause of over sea territory
Russia lol
ibx2cat has a better infrastructure plan for my own country than any politician ive heard. ibx2cat for prime minister
Ibx2cat needs to prime minister I'm in Canada I have a TH-cam channel though I subscribed to you from this vid
r/ihadastroke
Does Canada allow you to build new cities? I would really like to play Cities: Skylines in their country. There seems to be plenty of room.
Yes, but you have to open a mine first.
Daniel Dogeanu no sorry, actually I’m not sorry. Go somewhere else
I wonder if somebody has made a Canada map in Cities: Skylines...
Honestly, build one on the Hudson Bay. There so much untapped raw ressources in the north worth billions. It’s just the infrastructure that’s bad
Go in Russia! I live here. Most of our territory is taiga and wastelands, so much free space!
Trains in Canada have become more of a luxury and not a commodity.
It really depends on where you live. There are often good deals on the Quebec-Windsor corridor.
Yup, except for the GO line in the GTA. VIA in Ontario is pretty much a luxury and the VIA rail Canadian that goes across the Country is super luxury and super expensive. (But every Canadian should do it, its worth it if you can find a seat sale for 75% off)
@@Globalurb trains dont exist in saskatchwan haha i just found out people took trains to travel
@@Aquatrizor VIA stops out of Saskatoon. I'd not rely on VIA if you wanna go to Winnipeg or Edmonton. Tomorrow train is expected to be at least 3 hours late.
I once played a football match in Sweden against a team from Whitehorse called Yukon Strikers. When we looked up where that was on a map we thought «wow thats so far north». Today I realised that the place I live (Finnmark, Norway) is actually 10 degrees further north.
R u a viking
Lol😂
It's so weird how yoj forget how far north Europe is in relation to America
European cities tend to be more north than Canadian ones, but water currents make Canada colder. If that wasn’t the case Toronto would have the same climate as the south of France.
CreativeEntropis True. Whitehorse is about the same latitude as Oslo, Norway.
Was the same price to drive home to Nova Scotia from Alberta as it was to fly, so I used it as an excuse for a 5000km sight seeing tour lol. Just had to remember to bring a jack and some oil, because you're not supposed to drive longer than that without an oil change. Was nice having the same culture over the whole landmass. Stopped in a place called Marathon Ontario to ask for an empty water bottle to use as a funnel to pour the oil in, and I swear they assumed I was a local hooligan fixing up a beater car. 2500km from home, 2500km from where I was going, and was still at home. I love that feeling. No wonder everyone wants to take over the world, seeing your influence spread that far is truly satisfying.
Does Nova Scotia live up to its name being "New Scotland"?
@@carultch yes and no. We probably have more scottish heritage than anywhere else in the country. We have "highlanders" in the north, just like in scotland. The highland games are held here. Most of us wear plaid. We do kind of have funny accents to the outside world. Google Cape Breton Highlands, and Scottish highlands, and you can see why we got the name Nova Scotia from the people seeing it for the first time.
The language didn't really make it here though, if you see gaelic on any signs it's the irish who put it there.
And that's why the World LOVES CANADIANS.....cause we get along like family, oh ! , we are . WE'RE ALL CANUCKS
i wish scotia would develop its resources so they could help out with transfer payments
@@jmorton3462 Every province pays into transfer payments. That's why we have the highest taxes in the country. Let me guess, you live in alberta, where you pay a third as much in taxes and complain it's too much.
"Equalization payments do not involve wealthy provinces making direct payments to poor provinces as the money comes from the federal treasury. As an example, a wealthy citizen in New Brunswick, a so-called "have not" province, pays more tax into the federal system and funds more equalization than a poorer citizen in Alberta that pays less federal tax, a so-called "have" province. However, because of Alberta's greater population and wealth, the citizens of Alberta as a whole are net contributors to equalization, while the government of New Brunswick, therefore the citizens, are net receivers of equalization payments."
Sourced from the wikipedia article explaining transfer payments.
$350 cad for a 45 minute flight between calgary to Cranbrook, on a plane that had 18 seats, whereas London to calgary on British Airways was £300
Harry kelly and British Airways is very expensive for the UK
Marty Chisnall I think you’ve just given the reason for the price - the plane has only 18 seats and returns to Calgary instead of having more destinations to go to...
Harry kelly And after Oct. 31, 2018, you won't be able to take a greyhound bus from Calgary to Cranbrook any more.
Harry kelly Greetings from Cranbrook. Yes the prices here are ridiculous. 18 seats? Must be that Beechcraft 1900.
Yes, but what's the price for a London to Cranbrook flight?
Canada's totally an expensive union of city states
Pretty much.
Its called the federation of provinces for a reason its pretty much exactly that, a union of city states. just like the US kind of is.
@@Trey5Damare The US I'd note has a lot more small towns than Canada. The US highway system might take a long time traveling between cities but you can reliably hit a town every 10-15 mins. By comparison in Canada you can count the number of towns between Vancouver and Calgary while driving the transcanada highway (about 19 of them over 1250 km). And that's with a pretty generous definition of town (more than 200 people)
Toronto and Montreal are city states in their own mind
@@Trey5Damare nope America is a union of states not cities, we dont have canadas population problem.
Play a drinking game when you say “fun fact” you won’t survive.
"you won't survive"
I'm in.
VIA Rail operates across more than 450 communities in Canada, not just the major cities as displayed on the network map, and is the government's way of keeping these communities connected to major cities, as many of these communities do not have regional highways or airports. Up until 1987, it was also used as a primary method of mail delivery to these remote communities.
Canada is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. The UK is 75 times more densely populated. Most of Canada is a frozen wasteland, where nobody wants to live. In most areas away from the major population centers, the only practical way to get around is by private light aircraft.
Actually alot of Canada is liveable land( atleast) in the provinces but there is no infrastructure in place for new towns and cities so everyone is stuck living very much in the south. If we were to some how able to figure out our transportation and infrastructure issues living more to the north ( around the latitue where Edmonton is) would be alot more feasible.
i would say people from third world would gladly live in yukon
@@ahrlj24 He's talking the northern islands. Actually much of Ontario is uninhabited because it's all dense forest.
gotham61 - WRONG. "Canada is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world."
If you are including vast amounts of land where nowhere lives than sure. Same with Russia or Australia, or even the US (look at population densities).
Wait a minute, then you say "Most of Canada is a frozen wasteland, where nobody wants to live." I dont think you understand sparsely or density. ;)
@@joer8854 Yes, the very Northern bits.
Canada has serious underinvestment in roads, bridges, and passenger rail. Particularly out west. And the user of cell phones and jet planes get gouged on prices.
As a Canadian, I’ve always wondered why travel is so expensive here so thanks for this video
I'm Canadian and this is all so true. Looking forward to your blog. Too bad you couldn't come see me in New Brunswick, haha.
Nearly all symptoms adressed here are just as bad or worse in Russia. Same story about travelling from Khabarovsk or Vladivostok to Moscow or St. Petersburg by plane is better or cheaper by southern foreign route through China and Turkey rather than by direct domestic intraflight etc. etc. Even despite Russia is rather anti-social country with rampant vulture capitalism, even worse than the USA - nevertheless, the troubles are way too comparable to Canadian ones.
Yes, its canada in a lot of way worse, specially because of shortening the edges and less money to go by in general
That begs the question why does the US not have this problem?
@@rajkaranvirk7525 Which one? USA if far more densely populated - 330-350 millions.
@@morzh1978 which one? There’s one USA
The kicker with the rail network is the tracks are already there in many places (carrying freight). The reason rail isn't better is because it just can't compete with air travel given the travel times so there aren't enough passengers. (And, no, high speed rail wouldn't work. There's no way spending a couple quadrillion dollars on a high speed rail line across Canada would make sense.) People complaining about the interregional transportation in Canada forget just how mind bogglingly large the distances are. (Many Canadians talk about distance using units of time for a reason.) Even people in the population corridor that you mention in the video forget that. I get a chuckle when I hear stories about how some group decided to do a vacation in Canada (or the US for that matter - same problem) and thought they would spend a day in Toronto and then hop a train to Vancouver for a day trip.... Even a day trip between Calgary and Edmonton is barely practical considering the 3.5 hour average travel time between points in the two cities (mostly at 110+ kph, no less).
To further exacerbate issues, because of the low population density and the long distances, most people that travel at all have cars so they often choose to drive because they can just go directly to the destination with less hassle. And that's when there is even an alternative.
That said, in areas where the population is increasing, mass transportation systems are improving. There's talk of establishing passenger rail service (not Via Rail which is basically run by incompetent and possibly corrupt bureaucrats) between Calgary and Edmonton (both of which have metro area populations well over one million with huge intercity traffic), and there's a fledgeling regional bus network getting off the ground around Calgary which may just survive. Interestingly, Greyhound pulling out of Western Canada may help because it will force some action.
It's also important to keep in mind that much of the area west and north of Lake Superior didn't even have paved highways until well after the second world war. We've only been at this transportation thing for less than a century in much of the country so given the population and vast distances, we're doing pretty well.
Ontario actually has and ok rail network along the Toronto area and they're are expanding it , they call it the Go train. I think the idea is hopefully Been implement in Alberta ( Edmonton Calgary red deer , Banff) and BC ( possible line from Vancouver to the Fraser corridor and a possible connection to the Okanagan)
High-speed rail wouldn't be as bad as you think. The US is implementing it in phases. If anything, it would be worse for the US because we are just as wide, but out major cities aren't all contained in just a few degrees of latitude. That means the US would have to involve much more high-speed rail because of all the North/South and diagonal lines.
@@raney150 Perhaps. However, the US also has 10 times the population which makes it much more likely you can actually support a passenger network of any description. In parts of Canada that have that sort of population level, intercity passenger transport is expanding. However, consider that it is, for a reasonable land route for rail, 4400 km between Toronto and Vancouver and that route only goes through 8 or 10 cities one might consider significant destinations and only *one* of those cities has a 7 digit population. *This* is why long distance passenger rail, high speed or not, and even bus service, doesn't have much penetration in the market.
Once passenger services and public transportation of various kinds gets to a sufficient level in areas with the population to support it, it may make sense to start building long haul links between those areas, especially if the cost of flying (both financial and hassle) continues to increase. However, until the denser regions get reasonable passenger networks online, there just won't be the passenger demand since people will continue to drive to "nearby" destinations (several hours by car) and fly to further destinations.
Now we *do* have the rail lines on which we could run passenger trains between major centres. Those could handle "standard" speed rail with no trouble. Going high speed would quite possibly require significant infrastructure upgrades and probably requires twinning tracks in a lot of places to minimize delays due to freight trains sharing the lines and also minimizing passing delays for trains going oppposite directions. That is extremely expensive through BC and northern Ontario. Add in the fact that the only sensible long haul east-west lines would connect Vancouver and the Toronto/Montreal corrridor via either Edmonton or Calgary and then connect on through to Halifax, and you see that we just don't have the option of doing much incremental expansion of such a network.
Maybe in a century or so, it will happen, but not any time soon. It just doesn't make economic sense. Instead, we need to continue what we're already doing, which is to improve the transportation within major metro areas and/or busy cooridors and try to expand from there. In the mean time, airlines will continue to do long haul people moving.
Actually, there are only eight provinces with rail service-CN withdrew rail service from Prince Edward Island at the end of 1989. (Before the Confederation Bridge was built, there were two ferry routes, Cape Tormentine, NB to Borden, PEI, and Caribou, NS to Wood Islands, PEI, the former year-round, the latter only seasonal. The former ferry route was replaced by the Confederation Bridge. Both used to be capable of carrying rail cars as well as road vehicles.)
Totally missing the reasoning for public ownership of airports and railroads and subsidized airlines, the market would abandon most markets, it’s just not profitable to run an airport that serves a market of 15000 residents, so it needs to be subsidized. It’s totally different from operating in Europe where their are much larger population in much smaller areas.
The reason you don't understand, is that you have not thought about an airport in a tiny place, like Rankin's Inlet, that is thousands of miles from anywhere, and hardly anyone want to go there, but you need an airport in case a child gets sick. Life is not run by economics. Sorry.
@@dianapatterson1559
Actually, it is as the only reason that airport even exists at all in Rankin Inlet is for the transportation of goods to serve the few thousand people it has.
I think what you meant to say is Toronto Montreal Vancouver because Quebec city is the 8th largest metropolitan area not the second
The word province and state arę not interchangable it's provinces GET IT RIGHT
I sometimes use the term: Alberto State.
State is the correct word:
" territory considered as an organized political community under one government."
That being said, they are not provinces they are territories. GET IT RIGHT!!!!!
that is ok the man makes this kind of mistakes all the time, just look at the ones he makes about America. Do you know Alaska has only one representative in congress, He forgot all about the senate.
@@jonathandpg6115 state is *not* the correct word. The Americans use a bastardized version of the word that was initially meant to mean country, whereas provinces specifically refers to an inferior government within a federal system of sorts
He didn't do a single cut in the entire video give him a break man lol
Come to Saskatoon and enjoy the Prairies, Saskatoon namely. I'd avoid coming in winter unless you want to enjoy the true Canadian weather. Saskatoon in the summer has some incredible festivals, and a beautiful university.
Come to Saskatchewan and enjoy the Prairies, Regina namely. Come any time of the year because we really aren't that great, and at least the snow can be pretty.
We have... uh... The biggest inner city park in Saskatchewan. And, uh, gambling too! Maybe some drinking. You can even go to our University's bar.
What else? Oh yeah! You'll get jumped if you're alone downtown at night.
Regina is the capitol of Saskatchewan.
@@Direblade11 having been to Regina you've covered everything. Maybe we should send him to Prince Albert, he can check out the prison!
I like 2cat videos more than toycat ones xD
this video can be wrapped up in 10 mins
Yes, this is atleast 15 min too long.
This guy can go on forever.
The motto of the channel is: "Second channel, don't care."
do it for me pleaseee
It helped to distract me from my health issues so I can't complain.
When I was young I remember my parents flying to Las Vegas for a concert because the total cost of the trip (accommodation, flights, tickets, etc) was cheaper than flying to our nearest major city, Vancouver.
We'll give y'all some roads if you give us some healthcare
We have roads going everywhere except the far north pretty much
@Larry David Iqaluit is pretty much the only "major" city you can't get to in a car
ah yes, the grand metropolis of iqaluit. who could forget the bustling metropolitan megalopolis with a population of 7000
@@NewfieOn2Wheels It doesn't have to be a metropolis to be a city. It's the only provincial or territorial capital not connected to the rest of the nation's transportation network.
Uhmmm.........NO
It's ruh-gy-na, not re-gee-na. :)
actually, ruh-jye-nuh
I'm from Regina.
Rej-I-na.
Like your eye, or "I" live in Reg"I"na
It's the city that rhymes with fun!
@@th3oryO lmao
@@Direblade11 I think that's what they meant.
I'm American and just spent the weekend in Canada, and coming back into the US I got GRILLED at the border about marijuana, do I smoke it, did I smoke in Canada, do I have any with me - also there was a new GIANT sign just before the border crossing with a pot leaf with the red circle with a line through it. Even though we have needed our passports to cross since 9/11 (before we just needed our state-issued driver's license), yesterday was definitely the longest it has taken to get back into the US, and I make this border crossing several times a year, going back years now.
Glad I went back and came back in May!
Hopefully in the next 5 years the US will legalize weed on a federal level. I think it's dumb to smoke pot recreationaly but it's also better for many reasons to make it legal.
Get a Nexus card (for $50USD) if you cross often. It's worth it.
It's your Boarder Guards that are causing the problem.....Canada doesn't care if you want to take Weed home with you !
@@Ruf-Art-by-Tim Definitely the US does not want to have weed coming in from Canada but also Canada has a reason to be worried. Someone could go buy the weed in Canada and sell it in the US for large profits
Very well-said with Montreal.
Pros: Poutine
Cons: The French Language
Va chier criss
There are many cons against going to Montreal (roadworks, traffic, reckless bicycle riders, potholes, garbage, beggars) but French is not one of them.
Don't miss the fact that the name of our country was name by a FRENCH man who has talked whit amerindians
We don’t have the train in Prince Edward Island either.
However, we have a nice biking/walking/snowmobile trail where the railroad used to be, so that’s something.
That's much the same story as the Kootenays in BC. The railway there is long since defunct, but its old path has made for good trails.
Same on the island of Newfoundland.
I biked the entire trail about 5 years ago. It was so nice
There hasn't been a train on Vancouver Island for over a decade.
@@bruceboa6384 And that happens to be the island I live on. Locomotives still run on the Island, but only in Nanaimo now.
I'm a Montrealer.
Canada, unlike the United States, doesn't have a unified highway system except for the Trans-Canada Highway, which has more in common with the Pan-American Highway. In contrast to the US interstates and US routes systems, even the most significant highways in Canada are organized province by province. For example, just to take Canada's busiest expressway, the 401 through Southern/Eastern Ontario and the 20 through Southern Quebec are one and the same highway and yet don't have a unified number the way that I-95 or I-80 go all across the US.
Another point to make is that Canada is a collection of different regions, each of which is more connected to adjacent parts of the US than to other parts of Canada.
About privatizing airports - this only makes flights cheaper if there is competition. If there is only one airport per location, there is no competition with other airports. You can argue that there is competition with road and rail, but rail is expensive and slow as-is, and road is not always a great option if the distances are as great as they are in Canada. The result is, private or public, airports have a monopoly, and a monopolistic private company is no cheaper than a public one, and is in fact often more expensive.
About the ferries in Newfoundland there are two ferries both from two different towns Port aux Basques and Argentia. Argentia is about one hour and 30 mins away from St.john’s But the ferry ride takes about 12 hours. Port aux Basques is about 11 hours away from St.john’s and the ferry ride takes about seven to eight hours. And it costs about 120 dollars per person plus the cost for your car which is about 240 dollars and cost of gas which is crazy expensive in Newfoundland. So it would cost about the same for a Flight.
That's why everyone is so nice! You don't move around like us, you get relignal and stick to your own. Canada I mean. I've been up there and I have a real strong feeling that Canada doesn't allow the crap that we put in food that bloats us up in the States. Ya'll look fit!
Zac Alleywalker Lowing In Europe too in my opinion. Maybe it's all in my head, but I feel better (gastrointestinally) when I'm in Europe. And I'm eating the same types of foods-I just think the regulations keep their food more 'natural' (e.g., not pumped full of antibiotics).
we don't allow that stuff in our food, you are correct.
The food situation in Canada vs the US is much better. You can still buy junk food loaded with chemicals but there is a lot more selection of food without chemicals. Unlike in the US where it seems like anything and everything is packed full of chemicals.
There are a lot of fat Canadians.
The isolation makes it hard to run Canada. Every region has its own agenda and feel left out when the federal government doesn't follow-up on their demands. You'd be surprised to see the amount of hard feelings different regions of Canada can hold against each others.
Westjet is not cheap, swoop is westjet's budget service
*sigh*. We *DO* have redundant infrastructure… Those big lakes there? Crucial to shipping goods and materials. There are ferries that link around the TransCanada “bottleneck”.
As for rail and air, it’s pure maths. Population density just doesn’t support a network that links random points around the country. Our population is concentrated around the southern border for climate and arability reasons, and because shipping *BY SHIP* through the great lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway were the easiest and cheapest way to move trade goods and resources.. The bulk of the north is muskeg, tundra, or granite exposed through glaciation, with short growing season if you can even grow anything other than scrubby forest. And While the airport *lands* are frequently federally owned, they are generally run by *private* authorities as independent entities, run on basic free enterprise principles. Cities like Edmonton are practically geographical mistakes, there because it’s a relatively easy transition from eastern, western, and northern continental divides and their respective watersheds, critical for trade along waterways in the early days of colonization up until the advent of the railroads.
Just got home from a trip to Whitehorse: 6 hours driving, passing through 3 villages of 400, 150, and 40 people. The rest is wilderness. There is a LOT of empty land in Canada! And, the Permafrost, mountains, etc., make even road building pretty difficult.
I just clicked on this video of you 2cat and already, after I've seen the first seconds, I have to watch it.
The big problem with transportation in Canada is that Canadians by and large don't want to go to places in Canada. They're from Canada. They've seen Canada. They want to go somewhere that's NOT CANADA. Nobody wants to get on a train and stop at every town of hosers and hicks along the way. Me? Fuck, I would, that sounds cool to me. But you won't see elephants and Buddhist stupas and rainforests and Roman forts here. I'm sure Brandon Manitoba, Port Perry Ontario, and Truro Nova Scotia are all special, unique places, but most people are gonna say "been there, done that".
I don’t know whether it’s the same in Canada, but I know in the US a lot of the problem with trains is that all the tracks are owned by freight companies. When they were built, this was great, because we got a huge rail network fast and the companies had a big incentive to run passenger services as well because it was the best possible advertising for their freight services and their only legitimate competition were stagecoach lines. But then when planes, cars, and busses made the passenger lines stop being profitable, and the government stepped in so the passenger train lines didn’t disappear completely, the freight lines still own the tracks, can charge whatever the government will pay to lend them use of the network, prioritize freight traffoc whenever there’s a schedule conflict-even if it’s their fault-and just generally have very little incentive to do anything to improve the passenger experience.
Same issue here
A big part of the costs are the high population areas subsidizing the low population areas. If we didn't those places would not be affordable at all.
My friends in Toronto usually drive to Buffalo, NY and fly out of there to save money. The taxes are just crazy.
Nice video Toycat.
Toycat? Who is that
What's the big difference? Doesn't Toronto have a lot more flights? I would think it'd be cheaper.
@@cartonet8186 no. Canadian flight fees/taxes make it seriously expensive. It's cheaper to fly from Buffalo to Vancouver rather than Toronto to Vancouver.
It sucks
@@eca3101
Blame the Federal government.
The reason why they won't build roads isn't because they don't want to. It is simply because of the ethnicities and cultures surrounding the vast population centres across Canada
As a Canadian I am just now learning that we apparently have "States".
living in a southern city like i do (Vancouver) we typically drive to Washington state and fly to and from their airport - half the price
Have you considered decaf?
Toronto -> Montreal: 500KM+
Toronto -> Windsor: 4hour drive
Toronto -> Vancouver: possibly a week
Toronto -> Regina (by plane): around 4 hours
No one takes the train. If we're going across the country on holiday, we'll usually fly. If it's not too far, we might drive. But taking the train doesn't make much sense because if you don't drive there, you'd have to rent a car to do anything worthwhile.
If you want to know how bad our rail connectivity is, consider this. To get from Prince Rupert or Terrace to Vancouver by train, you have to travel for over 10 hours to Prince George and stop overnight. It gets worse, though.
Following your overnight stay in smelly Prince George, you get back on the train and continue across the Alberta border to Jasper. Yes, you have to cross into another province to travel between the northern and southern parts of British Columbia by rail. Once you disembark in Jasper, you have a whopping 20-hour layover before you can finally get onto the train to Vancouver.
If time is money, flying is better than taking that train journey at almost any price.
Reilly Walker to get to Churchill from Winnipeg you have to go into Saskatchewan. You could also drive from Winnipeg to Gilliam and the catch the train to Churchill
Train trip is damn scenic though. You guys in BC must REALLY hate having BC rail taken away. I heard those Budd Cars worked well until their final years.
@@BNoakville Oh yes. It's sad to travel through the Cariboo or along Vancouver Island and see the empty, disused railways that once connected BC. There's consideration of reviving the train service on Vancouver Island, though. The northern train indeed provides some great views, but it's slow and only comes by in a given direction once every four days.
Glad you corrected your pronunciation of Montreal by the end of the video; it was setting my teeth on edge. But my home town, Regina, rhymes with China, not Christina.
And you know what, you remind me of a kid from Bath I met several years ago on a train here in southern Ontario. No matter how much I tried to persuade him that the middle part of "Ontario" sounds exactly like "terry", he insisted on pronouncing it as "on-TAAHH-ri-o". It was really frustrating because by then I was living in Ontario, so I should kind of know what I'm talking about.
He did tell me that his online name was Polecat and he showed me a copy of his online zine. You even resemble him somewhat. I can't imagine you're the same person because he'd probably be in his late 30s by now and you are clearly not. But if you are that guy, it would be an unbelievable coincidence and, my, you've aged incredibly well, but you still can't pronounce Ontario.
You have a crazy memory
ibxpolecat would be a fun reveal
The worst part about living in Canada is the fact that our current federal government now taxes us over 60% of our yearly income. You make 100K a year? You pay 60K on taxes. Canadians would prefer to fly. But A- We get taxed to living death so its hard to go anywhere as it is, B- We only really have 2 major airlines that dominate the market and because of that they can jack the prices up as much as they want. I live in Regina btw
They’re called provinces 😊
We're chopping trees all the way to the 51rst paralel FYI. That's sufficiently far north that the trees that are getting chopped will likely take several lifetime to grow back to an acceptable size. There's a road named the james-Bay road going all the way from the south to the Bay James. Granted, it's a single road, but it's there. It was built in the 1970s as part of the James Bay Project in order to haul all of the heavy equipment required to build the massive hydroelectric dams which provides virtually all of the power in the province of Québec. It's quite the interesting subject if you are curious. The amount of power we generate per capita is amongst the highest in the world and a real cash cow for the government. There's also the Labrador Highway which goes through the city of the same name and then continues on all the way to the pacific ocean. There's another road called numbered 3 which goes all the way to Yellowknife. There's the Alaskan Highway which was built by the US during the second world war in order to be able to get men and equipment to and from Alaska. There's even a road going all the way to the Arctic ocean. It's really hard to see on Google map, and doesn't even appear to be marked, but it's there. There are plans to open up even more roads going north as the Canadian north is full of mineral resources ranging from copper, to gold, diamonds, silver, nickel and many other. The Canadian north is better connected than what you make it to be in your video.
Jonathan Langlois How many roads go to Nunavut?
@@cloudypigeon1174 ZERO
@@cloudypigeon1174 If you are talking about permanent roads, I don't know of any, but I really don't get your point. I wasn't trying to say that there are roads going everywhere in Canada. There is no questions about the fact that there are vast expenses of lands which don't have any roads going through them. With that said, there are definitely some roads going through Nunavut. There are mines deep in Nunavut and they need roads to be able to haul heavy equipment fuel and ore in and out of the mines. They are known as ice roads and as is implied by the name, theses roads are built during the winter and are quite literally made out of Ice. They are some of the most dangerous roads in the world to drive because they are in the middle of nowhere, in a place where you will freeze to death in a matter of minutes, and where any kind of help is likely hundreds of kilometers away. Bringing some extra gas is a must because, quite obviously, there isn't any gas station anywhere on the way. As for how they get workers to the mine, there are usually airstrips located near the mines.
Nowhere in the Video does it get mentioned about Permafrost, and the issues it creates regarding road construction and maintenance. Winter travel is something else in Canada entirely though. Google maps don't do ice roads after all.
@@twotone3471 Another thing that he seems to forget is the size of our population and how it is distributed. For our population, our road network is more than acceptable. To put it that way, it doesn't make sense to expand it much more as we just wouldn't be able to maintain it properly. There's also the fact that you wouldn't want to drive all the way from the east coast to the west coast unless you were on a road trip of some kind.
As for Winter travel, we use heavy construction equipment to clear the roads, so that's not an issue. The roads are usually clear just barely hours after a snow storm has passed. I always find it funny to see the northern most states of the US struggle with a bit of snow. They have all that construction equipment just like we do.
Clearly, the geography explains why most of the larger provinces are more closely integrated with the states that border them to the south than to each other, both culturally and economically.
The rail is mostly freight. It takes to long so most people wont do rail to slow. Driving can be done in 5 days just do 120 the whole way
quebec city is not in top 3 biggest city. its toronto, montreal, vancouver, calgary, edmonton.
Sorry, I have the weirdest thing where I mix up Quebec city and Montreal (Quebec's major city)
The narrator could speak more slowly and be more concise. He repeats his points needlessly. Comes across as rambling.
because he is rambling
Yes, rambling. He even knows at some level that he's rambling.
“Long story short.”
“Long story short.”
He said it at least twice. Setting aside the annoyingly cliched aspect of the phrase, every time I hear him, or anyone else, say “Long story short.” I immediately think, “Too late.”
Realise how lucky we are in Europe with flying, you can fly to any country in Europe for around €10. Just flown from London to Denmark for £12
you didn’t quite get the newfoundland ferries right.
there are actually two ferries between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia:
Sydney to Port-Aux-Basques (7 hours), and Sydney to Argentia (16 hours).
The one you showed on the map on the route between St. John’s and Halifax was the 7 hour one, so you were overstating the length.
19:50 Toycat for PM!
Australia has sought of the same problem that’s why people drive or fly rail is from cairns to Brisbane to Sydney to Melbourne Sydney to Aderlaide Melbourne to Aderlaide to Perth and aderlaide Alice springs and Darwin
Santino Mamone all big countries (Canada Australia Brazil USA Russia China India) do
Not as big an issue here in Australia, theres no mountains and lakes and aside from the center the country is habitable
Ffroghnourm7 it’s not really a major issue in the USA or China either, but there’s still a reason most people don’t take trains to travel in these countries. It’s population density.
i think why canada is so poorly connected is because the provinces are so big and not many people live in western ontario or northern canada. there are no major cities in western ontario and most of manitoba. The USA has many cities nationally so they need more roads to connect them. Thats why canada has 1 highway that runs through basically every major city in canada. starts in charlottetown PEI and ends in victoria B.C and rupert
FYI: Overflight fees don't apply to domestic travel. An overflight fee is something a country charges a foreign airline to allow them to fly over without the intention of landing in that country. Like if the shortest distance between two places would be flying over Canada and neither your starting point or ending point are in Canada, then you'd be charged an overflight fee for the convenience of using the airspace.
Flights in Canada have gotten really cheap with low cost airlines. $10 from Vancouver to Edmonton this summer!
$10 plus $17 to pick your seat, $50 dollars if you want to bring a bag ($65 for a carry on) andlike $30 in taxes. Swoop likes to advertise cheap prices, but they tack on everything else after you click buy. Still the cheapest option.
You forgot fuel surcharges (which is a BS way to advertise a lower fare than you're actually charging and scam the people who don't pay attention) and the occasional airport surcharge.
@@ThePaintballgun pay $10 for a ticket, skip picking your own seat, bring just a carry on if your going to Edmonton for only a few days (if your going for longer the bagging fee is very affordable compared to flying say Air Canada), $30 in taxes isn't mcuh either (although the offer I'm taling about included taxes). That's how discount airlines operate. You aren't paying for those services to begin with. Your paying for a direct flight to a certain destination only.
@@lostwizard not on the offer I had from Abbotsford (about an hour from Vancouver international airport) to Edmonton.
Jivan Grewal I wouldn't pick my seat if I didn't have to but they make you and it's $17 at least, so in my opinion the advertised price is very misleading. Also you say "just bring a carry-on", where it's literally $60 for a carry-on and $50 for a checked bag. You can bring a small bag like a purse or a small backpack as a personal item. probably just enough for a weekend if you pack light.
And I know the offer you're talking about. It doesn't include tax, fuel surcharges, airport fees, seat fees or potential baggage fees. I flew on the airline you're talking about from Hamilton to Abbotsford three weeks ago.
The railroad to Churchill was inoperable for a year. Canadians. Pffffft.
Take the plane.
You can see polar bears further south, port can't operate year round.
SilvanaDil It was sold to a US company, Omnitrax. They were the ones who closed it down.
They didn't close it down. Mother Nature damaged the tracks, and the company decided it wasn't worth fixing. It's an unprofitable route. Canada's government should own it and maintain it; the handful of people are its citizens.
@@SilvanaDil the current government actually was looking into but because of politics they decided against it, now they have reach a deal and they will rebuilt the line but no word yet when construction will begin
Interesting scientific fact: While Canada and the USA are officially recognized as the 2nd and 3rd largest countries in the world, Canada is actually only 1.5% larger than the U.S. in grand total area. However the United States is actually the overall largest between the two in reality. The United States has 0.6% more land than Canada. But the United States also has far more Arable as well has habitable land than Canada. In Fact most of Canada is completely inaccessible via any mode of transport. It's primarily open tundra up north, or extremely thick woods that is never visited by anyone. Much of Russia is the same way actually too.
Another fun fact about Canada: Canada holds 20% of all the world's fresh water lakes.
Another fun fact about the U.S. is that the United States not only has the tallest Mountain found in North America with Mt. Denali (Former Mount McKinley) at an impressive 20,310 ft high, it also has the world's tallest Mountain that is over 33,000 ft tall from base to summit.
One last known fact about the U.S. and Canada, is that you could literally fit the whole of the UK inside of either the U.S. or Canada 40x over!
Another fun fact: If you draw a line around a ball, you’ve described the circumference! Wow! Factoids are FUN!!
When swoop started, they offered flights from Vancouver to Edmonton for $15, I don't know how.
Tbh there is no such thing as a "geography problem". You just deal with the geography you have.
Having bad geography can put a country at a serious disadvantage, though. Canada's rugged terrain of mountains and literally millions of lakes makes it one of the toughest countries in the developed world in which to settle and develop infrastructure.
^ agree with this - geography is something which uniquely defines your country, and can be overcome in certain ways, and used to your advantage in others.
I think you’d hate Stratfor’s channel. They have at least 70 videos titled (country)’s geography problem.
I know Wendover Productions does those types of videos as well.
Funny...it's the geography that lots of visitors want to come and see...that's NOT A PROBLEM !
Regina is pronounced like Re Jai Na, not re ji na and Newfoundland is pronounced like Newfin Land just for the record :)
Yes,yes, rhymes with Vagina.
Doing Montreal and Quebec City in one trip is your best bet. As a Canadian myself its one of the best trips I've done.
Love this video, so many quirky facts! I find the transportation situation so fascinating. Would love to see more similar videos to this in the future.
Canada's first Prime Minister was Scottish. The Governor General before last was a Haitian. No US style citizenship rules to hold posts Toycat.
You have to be a Canadian citizen. You just don't have to be born in Canada.
Yea that's kind of an important bit I left out haha
Vote Toycat some time in the 2030's then!
ibx2cat I think you have to have lived in Canada for at least four years to qualify for citizenship status.
I really wish you would:
1) slow down
2) check your facts
You completely missed the provincial highways, which is significant since highways, under the Constitution, are a provincial, not a federal, responsibility.
Possibly you'd do well to learn a bit more before posting a video.
This guy has surface level knowledge about Canada.
@@lappu911 Everybody in the world does. We are way TOO BIG and a SMALL population. So that means there is A LOT to miss in this country. Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are basically Canada to the rest of the world.
I mean just learning about Ontario is a mind fuck in it's own. French people in the north, Canadian shield in the north which means most of the province isn't really habitable. I don't think people even realize that more than half of the country is uninhabited and inhospitable to human life. I barely even think of the north of this country, it's basically nomansland. One thing I notice about foreign people is they focus on the size of the country and are baffled by it, they don't realize the country is actually a lot smaller if you just include habitable land. It's not like anybody lives north of Sudbury, or north of Edmonton.
It's comparable to Australia, Australia population is focused on the coast, the deeper inland you go the more inhospitable and less populated it becomes. So the country is actually really spread out population wise and almost is like a circle. Canada is actually comparable to Chile, cause it's a thin band that's really long, if you just look at population and hospitability.
The USA is basically fully inhabitable, minus some parts of Alaska and the South West desert. Same with Europe.
Canada, Russia and Australia are very limited due to their climate despite being massive nations.
@@playlistsgalore6647 it is habitable, just not convenient.
Yea guy thinks he knows everything you can drive across Canada we have like a trillion km of roads dude this guy is dumb af
@@playlistsgalore6647 Canada is not a "SMALL" population, its just not a 100 million + type population. Most of the countries geography would not easily support large populations, so if you eliminate the areas where no one or next to no one lives, then the population density increases a lot. Windsor to Quebec City is home to half the population.
Canada has a travel pass just like The Oysar card it's called a Presto Card which you can use on multiple Transit Networks throughout Ontario primary throughout Toronto and Ottawa
Ok, so you've been to one city. It is very clear that you don't understand just how large North America is. It takes three or four ten hour days to cross the continent solo by car if everything goes right, during summer. Much of Canada does not rely on roads for transport. Air is a huge player. Your suggested bridge won't change much unless it's wartime - the one bridge serves most people just fine.
If only Yonge st was between Edmonton and Yellowknife instead of Toronto and Thunder Bay
The name "Yonge Street" doesn't go anywhere near that far.
@@denelson83 it's a joke.. Cause it's long af
Longest road in the world and it's in the wrong place.
Honestly, Calgary is a boring city.
The nearby town of Drumheller is very neat (it’s in the Badlands) and Banff, Alberta is incredible!
As for Calgary itself... eh.
I’ve never been to Montreal.
I had a road trip around the banff region this summer, visiting the lakes Louise and moraine and I absolutely fell in love with the Canadian landscape.
I’m from Calgary and I love travelling to the rockies but find Calgary boring apart from Flames games
Montreal: Great city to visit but not to live in.
Calgary: The other way around
Canada has most of their population all in Southern Ontario & Quebec(really close to each other), making cheap flights or trains is not going to be practical, Australia suffers a-lot of the same problems, but to add onto that is they have most their population less than 500 miles from the US, so they can easily catch flights through the US or drive on US highways for easier transport.
I've driven from Toronto to Vancouver within Canada. It was a long drive, with not a lot in between. I've also driven from Newfoundland to Toronto, also a lot of nothing. Lots of natural beauty, and I found it very relaxing. BTW I live in Niagara Falls, Canada now. I semi-regularly travel from Toronto to Vancouver, and it typically costs $350-500 each way, if not much higher, economy class.
I've made both trips myself by car. Once is enough. Most of my traveling is on bicycle.
If you come to Calgary, come during the Stampede. It's like a 2 week party for the whole city.
Jason Jones But you can't get here by train from the east, even though Calgary is Canada's 4th largest metro area.
It really is!
But Calgary doesn't party for Winning Grey or Stanley Cups .....cause they hardly ever win any !
Greetings from Edmonton. First until I found your channel I didn't realize that there were other people as obsessed with maps as me. Great video just a few things.
Rail doesn't go to two province PEI and Newfoundland. Also the link to Churchill has been gone been discontinued. There is no train to Calgary which is worth noting as it a city of a million people. Also, there are only 2 trains a week from Toronto to Vancouver and fright has priority so these trains are often delayed over 24 hours. I find it hilarious to hear British people complain about their train system which I though was pretty awesome when I visited the UK.
You didn't mention that we just lost 80% of or intercity bus service west of Sudbury with Greyhound pulling out. It is a pretty big story and leaving an awful lot of people isolated.
As for Calgary vs Montreal. Unlike the rest of Quebec there is lots of English speakers in Montreal so language will not be much of a barrier. For me Montreal is much more interesting than Calgary as a City. However, if you want to leave the city, the Mortician Parks west of Calgary is one of the nicest places to visit anywhere, however you will need to rent a car though.
Oh and also Regina rhymes with vagina so that should clear up that mispronunciation.
Turtle is as Turtle Does greetings fellow Edmontonian.....the problem with them pronouncing ( rhymes with Vagina ) is they refer back to the pronunciation as if they were talking about the Queen
The train to Churchill wasn't discontinued. In typical Canadian fashion, we sold the rail line to an American company that refused to maintain it. It's back now finally.
It depends when you book your flight, if you book two weeks early a 4 hour flight that would normally cost upwards of 900$ will only cost 160$
The average plane fare isn’t $400, that’s the cheapest you’ll find it, most flights are over $1000, and if you want a book a flight within the week, expect to pay over $2000
why the hell can I not bring milk across my country. I've lived here my entire life and I honestly never knew that was a thing.
Also, I recommend going to Edmonton, I hear it has a lot of amazing things to do there.
Not that I've ever been there myself, unfortunately.
It's all about supply management. The governments ensure no region has too much or too little of any particular dairy product.
and pet rats are a no no in Alberto State.
Lynx Edmonton is nicer than Calgary.
@@reillywalker195 That's just communism!
@@reillywalker195
I like Edmonton at lot.
Now talk about Russia's geography problem, if you dare.
You mean how it might as well be a landlocked country, because its only coastline that is of practical purposes for trade and naval power are controlled by NATO chokepoints?
Don't listen to all the comments. I'm Canadian and you know quiet a bit about the country for a foreigner, believe me, you know more than a lot of Canadians.
Of course Canadian experts are going to critique you, you missed a lot of information, but I understand how esoteric Canada is, it really is, the world doesn't have a good grasp on the country. It's too big, with too much information to learn, to easily learn.
A small country like the UK or France are easy to learn about because of the size.
One thing I'd like to stress is how inhospitable to life most of Canada is, so our rail system may look shitty, or our road networks, but they aren't that bad, they connect all the population centres. Whitehorse and Yellowknife are small towns, they aren't cities in the practical sense, I'm from a small town in Ontario that has 60,000 people, that is considered "Small" in Ontario. Anything under 100,000 people isn't worth the infrastructure to the Canadian government.
The North only has connectivity cause of the gold rush, if that didn't happen, there'd be no roads up there.
Another thing I'd like to stress is how unimportant the north is to most Canadians, so to you as a foreigner from a country that uses most of it's land you don't understand the idea of "nomansland", which is basically 70% of Canada. WE are extremely rugged, and wild country, but most of us live in population centres that are no different than what you'd find in the USA.
Toronto has the busiest highway in North America, probably bigger than anything you'd find in the UK, some stretches are 18 lanes, and there are several major highways that connect Ontario.
It is a slap in the face to rip on Canada's highways because we are one of the few countries that was built on the car. Ontario used to be the number one car manufacturing centre in the WORLD, bigger than DETROIT. We are at American level when it comes to car infrastructure probably even better when you consider our population. So you are VERY mistaken on the comments about our highways and infrastructure for that. We have older roads / highways than the UK, it is a part of our history, unlike Europe, do not underestimate Canadian highways.
"Life is a highway" is a Canadian pop rock song, if that's any indication of the cultural impacts the car and highways have on us.
401, QEW, 404, 412, 410, 407, 405, 427, 400 series highways are probably better than anything you'd find in the UK. Just look up the 401 Highway on google images. I don't think Europe really has anything comparable.
Just went to Quebec from the Boston area, did not get thoroughly checked at all, just asked for passports, names and locations we were going.
I'm pretty sure there is no rail service to PEI... So that's 2 provinces without rail he is talking about, not 1... So he doesn't know what he's talking about (JK) but I feel like PEI is quite the forgotten province.
Are there any rail services to mainland Labrador? Or just the partially gravel road?
@@carultch
I'm not Canadian, but AFAIK the Trans Labrador Highway is not fully paved either.
Granted, when you are as big, harsh, and lowly populated as Canada, it's really hard and economically stupid (but at the same time necessary) to even maintain what they adjust have, let alone expand.
Harsh climate is what protects them but also what makes things hard.
@@ABCantonese Is there an unpaved part of the Trans Labrador highway in Quebec before you even get to Labrador?
@@carultch No idea, ask google maps or Wikipedia.
@@ABCantonese If Qc road 138 went all the way to the Belle-Isle strait , going to Newfoundland would be much easier and shorter. . There's a plan to complete the road to Blanc-Sablon but the missing gap is huge (300km) and go through very difficult terrain so don't hold your breath.
Flights do not become more expensive when airports are publicly owned. Actually the opposite happens; the prices go down due to the steady stream of public tax dollars, the fees collected from the airline companies, and the innecessity to charge enormous fees and the regulation of its fees by the government. Canada’s problem with air transport is actually that it’s airports are privately owned as opposed to publicly owned like most places in the world, including the United States. In the US, the government allows companies to use its airports at a low cost, however in canada, the private companies which own the airports charge whatever price they’d like to the airline companies which tend to be exorbitant, thus boosting the price of the ticket to cover the fees
I think you've made a mistake here, I checked and most of the airports with problematically high fares are publicly owned. (none that were privately owned came up in my research) Also, airports that are privately owned generally offer lower fairs in countries where both co-exist. Please do not use your political beliefs to justify facts, because the data always paints a more interesting picture
Haha ibx2cat called out your commie BS.
I’m not disputing that, if anything I actually agree that private airports would lower fares very efficiently due to increased competition and a high demand and most likely do so around the world. I’m just pointing out that Canada is precisely the exception to this point because the airports themselves are privately owned, yet the land they’re on is owned by the federal government. If they were publicly owned, Canadian tax dollars would be used to pay for them, however this is simply not a Canadian tax payer expense. Instead, the federal government charges the privately owned airports exorbitant taxes, which are then resembled in flight fares.
Also coupled with extremely low regulation in a small demand market with little competition allows the airline companies to charge incredible fees
You're making a case against heavy government regulation, as that's precisely what keeps monopolies alive.
In the beginning I thought your videos were very intense, but as I keep watching them I realise more and more how amazing you are. You are an extremely well informed individual and an amazing source of information. Thank you.
thanks for the pleasant comment, I appreciate it :)
@@ibx2cat You're welcome :) It took me a while to realise that your videos are actually slightly sped up in order to convey more information in less time. Quite impressive. Plus, everything you're saying is backed by facts, full of information and very interesting. I am usually quite hard to impress, but you've done just that. Again, thanks for the effort and all the hard work that you put into making these videos and don't think that it's not noticed :)
I think you said that VIA Rail serves 9 provinces, it's actually 8 provinces. One of the main reasons why the rail network is still heavily subsidized is that it serves very remote regions that is otherwise not accessible by any other transport.
2:44 Quebec City has about as many people as Omaha, a city I'm sure rarely crosses your mind if you've ever even heard of it. Get your facts straight.