[Brusco_RF]

What a lot of commenters cheering this headline might not know is that there is only one single internal road connecting east and west canada which regularly closes. Most commercial routes go through the US. Don't believe me? Route Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps.

This move would amount to throwing rocks from a glass house.

[soperj]

Trans-Canada regularly closes? That's news to me. The reason google maps goes through the US is that it's significantly shorter. We also don't haul things regularly across the country in the same way they do in the US, we use the trains, and the majority of things would go through ports. If you're on the eastern half of the country (which is the majority of the country) they use the great lakes.

[SonicScrub]

The parent comment is likely referring to Highway 17, which is the only road connection between Manitoba and Ontario. A boulder once fell on this highway leading to its closure for a period of time.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/how-crews-cleared-a-...

I've seen this incident be the subject of hyperbolic clickbait articles and YouTube videos discussing the complete cutting off of East and West Canada (conveniently ignoring the realities articulated by your comment). Perhaps the parent comment is vaguely aware of incidents like this and is extrapolating to unfounded conclusions?

[bobthepanda]

Trans Canada has a lot of non-dual carriageway segments and single points of failure.

In 2016 there was a bridge failure that resulted in large detours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge

[cmrdporcupine]

It's also not actually true there's only one. To get through northern Ontario, sure. But there's also the Yellowhead all the way from Winnipeg to Haida Gwai, and plenty of highways that connect to Hwy 2 from there.

Trans-Canada is a highway system, not a single road.

It's true that the stretch from Kenora to Sault Ste Marie is a vulnerability. It's tough terrain.

[mykowebhn]

While the majority of the population and infrastructure is located close to the border with the U.S., Canada's East and West is not connected by a single internal road. People do not have to travel through the U.S. to get from one side of Canada to the other. People even have multiple options! I should know. I'm Canadian, and I've done the drive from Montreal to the Yukon and British Columbia.

My take is that you have never been to Canada, and if you have, it was only to a major city, like Toronto.

[Suppafly]

> Route Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps.

I'm not sure this is evidence of anything that you're claiming. Google routes based on criteria you choose, typically 'fastest' or 'most fuel efficient', that does nothing to prove that other routes don't exist.

[jpambrun]

After "avoid tolls", google will have to implement a avoid "hostile countries"..

[mewse-hn]

> Don't believe me? Route Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps.

Default 44hr route goes through the states. If I click and drag the route up to go through winnipeg, it becomes a 47hr route that doesn't go through the states. I don't think this proves anything.

[boringg]

Listen Im all for smart reactions to dumb policies. This sounds like a dumb reaction to a dumb policy. Right now any article that does anything pro Canada anti US is going to get cheered in Canada because they are David against a mean Goliath (former best friend) situation.

Intelligent conversation and debate has no baring in this absolutely ridiculous situation.

This is truly one of the biggest unforced errors I have seen in a long time.

[Descon]

What intelligent options are you offering for Canada then? The US is going to tariffs us. They have stated that their aim is economic warfare focusing on collapsing our economy so that they may annex us.

It seems in the face of existential threats to our sovereignty, every option should be considered where we have advantage, and there are few.

[dguest]

I'm guessing it will close less regularly if they need it open.

[throaway1987]

Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps goes through the US because the distance is shorter.

[dylan604]

That's the fun kind of trivia that only a Canadian would know.

[throaway1987]

its not true (im Canadian)