Mr. Speaker, I have already indicated that as the budget called for last year Transport Canada is looking at all its activities and all areas in which we have subsidies.
I am glad to see the hon. member believes we should be eliminating subsidies. I hope he will speak to some of his colleagues who are having second thoughts about some of the subsidies that have been eliminated so far.
I assure the hon. member that we will be taking into account the need to look at the future of VIA.
Now that the province of Ontario, the province of Quebec and the Government of Canada have made public the report on high speed rail, we believe the time has come to look very carefully at what the future of VIA and other passenger services in the country should be. Certainly, as has been the case in the past, we will be looking at privatization as one of those options.