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What Canada can learn from the U.K.’s pricey high-speed rail project

October 4, 2023

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has scrapped another section of High Speed 2 (HS2), a planned high-speed rail line which was initially supposed to link London to northern England. Redmond Shannon explains why Sunak is scaling back the project; and what Canada, the only G7 country without high-speed rail, can learn from this.

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