Also notable is the fact that the United Kingdom did try to privatise the infrastructure and that nowadays, it is generally considered to have been a total disaster. Its the saga that keeps on giving. The British media just can’t get enough of that story.
Given just how many railway spurs and lines got abandoned in Canada, there’s certainly an argument to be made that it also was a total disaster in Canada. The government is being left to pickup the bill, but that’s not how its being framed in the media.