Wow, so in 50 years after all the ALR land is developed, then what?  We'll be in the same bad situation we are now, only on a larger scale (and without any local food production!). You also clearly don't understand that it's the Province, not the municipalities, who control most of the funding for big ticket transportation infrastructure.  I assume when you say that our infrastructure is inadequate, you mean the highway system? Well, places like LA built huge highway networks and now they have the same traffic problems, only on a larger scale.  See a pattern here?

And I thought economists were the only people crazy enough to believe that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet. The real problem here is the growth economy, and the population growth needed to service it. Ask Japan what happens to home prices when you take away population and economic growth (i.e. demand).

The only people this program is intended to help are the Liberal candidates running in the next election.