User talk:Andrew Dunning

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Hi - I was just wondering about the following passage that you added to VIA Rail:

Officially, the move from the CP to CN line was to keep service to more remote communities on the CN line. However, this move was seen as somewhat more politically-motivated by some. Coincidentally, the CN route goes through more towns that voted Progressive Conservative. Harvey André, the Cabinet minister who represented Calgary in 1990, was fairly public about the fact that he did not care if he never saw a train again in his life. The CN line also went through Edmonton, the home of both Mulroney and Joe Clark.

No doubt moving The Canadian from the southern CP line to the northern CN line was as much politically-inspired as it was financially, but is there actual evidence that the ridings along the northern route did go PC and the south went Liberal or NDP? I'd find it hard to believe that the majority of ridings in the west didn't go PC in 1988. It is true that André & Clark as PC cabinet ministers in Mulroney's gov't didn't do much to help VIA but I was confused when you say Mulroney & Clark were from Edmonton? Clark is from the Calgary area & in the 1970s-1980s, his riding was in High River, Alberta - outside Calgary. Mulroney never lived in any province except Quebec - he was from Baie Comeau, about 7 hours east of Quebec City.

Cheers, Plasma east 08:37, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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