The Federal Government can tell CP to move then. We are a democracy even if this seems to offend you.
Nobody is saying CP has to pay all the cost. The Federal Government gave Edmonton about 2 billion dollars in 2008 to build a modern inland port, so it is about time Calgary get one from the Feds too, but outside the city 50 km to the north on the alternate route CP surveyed in the 1930's.
Your main complaint seems to amount the terrible inconvenience a few Calgary CP workers might have, heaven forbid, driving an extra 30 minutes to their new jobs north of the city. When opposed to eliminating the risk of a Lac-Mégantic occurring in the core of our city, not one of your arguments comes close to being convincing.
Calgary wont lose even a single job if a new port is built just outside the city, not even one. Probably it will gain railway jobs.
The region will gain thousands of jobs building the new inland port, laying the new tracks and soil remediation of the old tracks and yards. When these hundreds of acres in and next to the core are cleaned of toxins and freed up for residential condo tower construction that means thousands more jobs and a massive increase of property tax base for the city.
Third: mass casualties? Multi-billion dollar hazardous goods train derailments? Get out of here with that alarmist bullshit.
You must be channeling the spirit of the captain of the Titanic. The following article does not lead me to share your supernatural belief in the absolute 100% safety of moving thousands of tones a day of toxic chemicals through downtown.
On Dec. 26, 2014, 15 cars carrying grains and fly ash, a material used to make concrete, went off the track west of the tourist town in Banff National Park.
"I wasn't thinking, I was in utter shock. Totally ill-prepared to find something like that," says Katelnikoff. "It put me in a bit of a panic because it was only my second trip and I was already just anxious to be on the train by myself, let alone deal with a derailment."
Canadian Pacific says training usually takes about six months, but documents show Katelnikoff was working alone as a qualified conductor less than five months after she was hired.
"I felt anxious to be out by myself, after what training I had. I did not feel like I was adequately trained. I felt like I was rushed through the training."