Mr. Minister, earlier, in your presentation, you talked about VIA Rail.
VIA Rail plays a key role for travellers across the country. This summer in Montreal, I had the pleasure, on behalf of our government, of announcing the new F-40 locomotives. We could see how proud the VIA Rail workers were about this project and to what extent this is important to the future of the corporation.
Thousands of people use VIA Rail every day. Since 2007, the government has invested more than $1 billion to improve this infrastructure, including $407 million from Canada's economic action plan.
Mr. Minister, could you tell us the status of these projects and how the users can benefit from them?