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Canadas" because of the scandal, and some promise-breaking ot the voters of Victoria to boot, but it's very odd that other than a mention of BC in the opening paragraph of this article the politics of the railway vis a vis BC are barely mentioned at all; not surprising, I suppose, given only central/mainstream CAnadian sources were used to construt it. But this article needs a LOT of work....
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