VIA Rail

[lenaitch]

The biggest issue is money. Solve that, and the rest is just beaucracy.

And with the budget operating budget cut that VIA took in the most recent budget, we are still in the "which service will VIA cut next" stage that we've been in for about a half-century.

Meh. Chicken or egg. If the government decides that VIA will provide 'x' service, it is implied that it would be funded to do so.

 

[nfitz]

Meh. Chicken or egg. If the government decides that VIA will provide 'x' service, it is implied that it would be funded to do so.

True. But something that I don't recall ever happening. We've had 50 years of the opposite from the likes of Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien, Martin, Harper, Trudeau (I think - would have to check that one), and now Carney.