RE:RE:TMX saga a perfect example of Western Industrial Paralysismeritmat...agree totally with your view...in today's world and the class of politicians we have around the world, a project like the national railroad would never have been built.
Similarly, I mentioned to my wonderful wife last night at dinner that looking at the Israeli Hamas conflict that if society was as it is today back in the 1930s/40s, Hitler wouda won the war... I remember the famous quote in the Godfather 1 when Corleone said that if the Mafia was in charge of the White House, they wouda stopped Hitler at Munich.
To me all this is kinda like the famous quote by Mike Tyson - "Everybody has a plan until they are hit in the head".
Today's politicians are more concerned with the latest poll than doing what they need to do!!