Also, the New Brunswick and federal governments are being almost completely silent right now on the abandonment of the Intercolonial Railway between Bathurst and Newcastle, New Brunswick, which is severing VIA Rail's passenger route from Montreal to Halifax and is taking away an alternate freight route into New Brunswick, should the main freight line through Edmundston become unavailable, as it did during the recent major CN derailment on that line.
On April 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.