Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is about passenger rail.
In the municipality that I have the pleasure of representing, there has been no service for decades. My constituents do not live in Canada’s far north. The city of Trois-Rivières is right in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor.
In a competitive world, where we have been promised a train for decades, what do we have to do to see those promises become a reality? Is government investment needed, or will market forces one day allow a train to serve a municipality like Trois-Rivières?