Bill C-255 (Historical)

VIA Rail Commercialization Act

An Act respecting the commercialization of VIA Rail Canada Inc.

This bill is from the 37th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in May 2004.

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Feb. 2, 2004
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-203 (38th Parliament, 1st session) VIA Rail Commercialization Act
C-255 (37th Parliament, 2nd session) VIA Rail Commercialization Act
C-279 (37th Parliament, 1st session) VIA Rail Commercialization Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-255s:

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VIA Rail Commercialization ActRoutine Proceedings

October 25th, 2002 / 12:10 p.m.


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Canadian Alliance

Jim Gouk Canadian Alliance Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-255, an act respecting the commercialization of VIA Rail Canada Inc.

Mr. Speaker, this is a reintroduction of a previously introduced bill dealing with the privatization of VIA Rail.

VIA, as a crown corporation, is subsidized in the amount of about half a million dollars a day, and recently had an injection of over $400 million. The transport minister has admitted that the private sector has indicated a will to run this without subsidy. The bill addresses the fundamental problem that it is wrong for the government to subsidize a business which competes against other private sector transportation sectors.

I hope the government will see the light of day, recognize the error of its ways and support this bill.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)