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Streamlining property expropriations for high-speed rail eliminates key safeguards, critics say

A TGV high-speed train at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, southern France, on Monday, May 14, 2018.

In an effort to halve the approval time for Canada’s new high-speed rail network, the Liberal government is streamlining how it expropriates land in a way that some say could compromise property rights and lead to costly mistakes.