The Carney government is proposing to grant the Crown corporation behind the high-speed railway between Toronto and Quebec ...

The bill would declare the line for the general advantage of Canada, ensuring federal jurisdiction over the project and limiting provincial oversight.

The great Montreal writer Mordecai Richler once defined Canada, in the voice of his foul-mouthed, generous alter ego Barney Panofsky, as “a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by ...