Mr. Speaker, I ask the House to imagine how different the situation might be today if the government had kept its promises to abandon the Mulroney agenda.
Imagine if instead of announcing the privatization of CN it had announced new investment. Imagine if instead of abandoning the Crow benefit it had stood up for the necessity of rail subsidies. Imagine if instead of continuing with deregulation and commercialization in the transport sector it had reregulated in favour of rail, an environmentally superior form of transport. Imagine if instead of keeping and adding to the cuts at VIA Rail it had finally made the investment promised for so many years by so many governments in passenger rail.
Maybe railroaders would have a different attitude today and certainly less anxiety about job security.