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The RPC will curtail ownership rights of musical concepts in favour of greatly strengthening the ownership rights of musicians producing musical expressions.

In keeping with the principles of the Outer Space Treaty, the use of outer space must be for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and be the domain of all humankind.

The RPC will create a publicly-owned national airline to facilitate movement of Canadians, first prioritizing the 50 most populated Canadian cities and communities reliant on air travel (i.e., especially Indigenous communities in northern areas), before expanding to serve all of Canada, as necessary. Until clean air travel technology (e.g., solar, electric, and hydrogen-powered airplanes) has developed far enough to provide a practical replacement for fossil fuel air vehicles, we believe a general policy of limited air travel should be encouraged to limit creation of greenhouse gas emissions that contributing to our imminent climate crisis.

The RPC will create a publicly-owned, clean energy-powered national high-speed rail network to facilitate movement of Canadians from coast-to-coast and between major centres of commerce, starting with five key routes: a Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal loop, a Montreal-Quebec City corridor, a Vancouver-Kamloops-Calgary corridor, a Calgary-Edmonton corridor, and a Toronto-Kitchener-London-Windsor corridor. By 2050, we aim to construct the Trans-Canada Railway (TCR), a rail system equivalent to the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH), which emulates the best parts of the Japanese, French, German, Chinese, and Spanish systems and serve Canadians with the second-most kilometres of high-speed rail (8,000km) in the world (behind only China)[1].

The RPC will legislate that the entire freight rail industry be deemed critical infrastructure and will nationalize all freight rail networks operating in or connecting to Canada. The existing freight rail and passenger rail management bodies will be merged into one organization to better balance passenger rail needs, especially for the planned high-speed rail network.

The RCP will prohibit procuring systems, software, ordnance, and all other combat supplies from private sector suppliers.