E-7458 Cancel Alto high-speed rail project Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7458 — Cancel Alto high-speed rail project — with 5,369 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Scott Reid. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7458
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: September 25, 2026
- Sponsor: Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac)
- Category: Transportation
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 5,369
- Daily increase: +15 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +282 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~40 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: May 28, 2026 — 562 data points recorded
Milestones
- 5,000 signatures reached on August 29, 2026 — total at that point: 5,006
- 1,000 signatures reached on June 7, 2026 — total at that point: 1,070
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on June 4, 2026 — total at that point: 509
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 4,721 signatures
- Quebec: 278 signatures
- Alberta: 116 signatures
- British Columbia: 105 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 30 signatures
- New Brunswick: 23 signatures
- Manitoba: 21 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 17 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 13 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 8 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 2 signatures
- Yukon: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| May 28, 2026 | 7 |
| June 6, 2026 | 859 |
| June 16, 2026 | 1,909 |
| June 25, 2026 | 2,198 |
| July 2, 2026 | 2,794 |
| July 11, 2026 | 3,153 |
| July 21, 2026 | 3,333 |
| July 31, 2026 | 3,580 |
| August 8, 2026 | 3,715 |
| August 15, 2026 | 4,411 |
| August 23, 2026 | 4,760 |
| August 31, 2026 | 5,039 |
| September 7, 2026 | 5,346 |
| September 8, 2026 | 5,369 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• The Alto high-speed rail project is estimated to cost approximately between $60 billion and $90 billion, or up to roughly $9,000 per Canadian family of four;
• The actual construction and emissions costs to build Alto are presently unknown, and will not be known until after disruptive and costly steps have occurred, including expropriation of property along the route;
• History suggests high-speed rail projects in general, and similar major infrastructure projects in Canada and analogous jurisdictions in particular, have typically cost substantially more than planned, taking much longer to complete than anticipated;
• Alto’s public business case is based on best-case annual cost and ridership revenue projections, exposing Canadian taxpayers to large financial risks;
• The annual interest payments to finance Alto’s construction are likely to equal or exceed Alto’s annual revenues, even under its own best-case projections;
• Alto is likely to require large, annual government operational subsidies for decades;
• Alto will not be in full operation until 2037 at the earliest;
• Many municipalities through which Alto will pass, without stopping or benefitting them, have expressed opposition to the project;
• Alto will serve an already well-serviced transportation corridor and provide little to no benefit to Canadians outside that corridor, or to those who do not use it; and
• Canadians will be better served by the government making smarter, less costly, less disruptive, and more limited investments to improve existing services and infrastructure.
We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to cancel the Alto high-speed rail project and focus on projects that will provide better value and lower risk to Canadians.
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