So Administrative, these issues can be solved. Legislative, same thing. Sounds as if Canada needs to build iTs first road ever. For finance there are a lot of options, public private partnership for the road, cash-flow based projectfinane, USA's solution to the lack of strategiic chrome (what's their current Defence budget ? And how much would it cost to partially participate), take-over ( the most probable at This stage ), let's agree to disagree. Has Nothing to do with per capita public debt levels in a certain area, too narrow a scope just to look at Ontario's situation alone. Cliffs came to close to substantiate your summation. That is what made them so angry when they had to leave, telling nonsense that it would not be done, correct, not by them.