Jim Belanger at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

March 11th, 2026 / 5 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Belanger Conservative Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt, ON

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you to the committee for allowing me to raise some of my concerns here today.

Thank you to the witnesses.

I represent many rural and remote communities in northern Ontario that rely on passenger rail to access essential services, including specialized care at Health Sciences North in Sudbury.

Via Rail is a federally owned Crown corporation funded by Canadian taxpayers. Its mandate is to provide reliable passenger rail service to rural and remote communities. Would we agree that the Sudbury-White River line is representative of such communities?

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