The government’s objective of financing new infrastructure is a worthy one. But selling one set of strategic public assets to finance another needs to take account of all of the economic, financial, social and community impacts.
In far less time than it will take to build Alto, we will have electric aircraft capable of travelling between Toronto and Montreal in just over an hour. In fact, Heart Aviation’s ES-30 electronic passenger plane, with a hybrid range of 800 kilometres, has already had its first fully electric test flight in New York state. Suddenly, a three-hour train trip seems less appealing.