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 5,849 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: Closed
- Closing date: September 25, 2026
- Sponsor: Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac)
- Category: Transportation
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 5,849
- Daily increase: +149 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +390 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~56 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: May 28, 2026 — 645 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: 5,096 signatures
- Quebec: 328 signatures
- Alberta: 138 signatures
- British Columbia: 120 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 32 signatures
- Manitoba: 24 signatures
- New Brunswick: 23 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 22 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 14 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 11 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 2 signatures
- Yukon: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| May 28, 2026 | 7 |
| June 8, 2026 | 1,144 |
| June 19, 2026 | 2,031 |
| June 28, 2026 | 2,513 |
| July 8, 2026 | 3,060 |
| July 18, 2026 | 3,302 |
| July 30, 2026 | 3,568 |
| August 9, 2026 | 3,737 |
| August 17, 2026 | 4,498 |
| August 26, 2026 | 4,871 |
| September 4, 2026 | 5,251 |
| September 12, 2026 | 5,413 |
| September 24, 2026 | 5,700 |
| September 25, 2026 | 5,849 |
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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