<strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="/topics/82-quebec" target="_blank">Quebec</a><br /><strong>Written By:</strong> <a href="/profiles/N Say" target="_blank">N Say</a><br />
<strong>Date: </strong> Saturday, April 26 at 15:01<br /><br />
<p>The federal investment will fund railway track rehabilitation, the replacement of passenger railcar windows, the purchase of vehicles and equipment, and the provision of a generator and water services at the maintenance-of-way camp at Esker (located between Emeril and Schefferville).</p><br><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235929997-government-supports-passenger-rail-service-in-northern-quebec">read more »</a>

What's old is new -- again! Does this presage inexpensive rail service across Canada then....?

"Federal funding comes from Transport Canada's Regional and Remote Passenger Rail Services Class Contribution Program."

Considering that the one main reason why Canada hasn't invested in a national hi-speed rail service, namely that we are too small a population, too thinly scatted (ie we are living "remotely" from one another), does the above investment in Quebec signal a reversal of this heretofore thin excuse?