Mr. Speaker, I do not think the minister answered my colleague's question earlier, so I would like to try it again.
Following decades of underinvestment in Via Rail, last week the federal government began to solicit the private sector to not only co-develop, but operate and maintain high-frequency rail in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor. We know that privatization is short-sighted. We know it puts public money toward corporate profits and jeopardizes good jobs.
Will the Minister of Transport reconsider and assure the House that Via Rail is not on the verge of being privatized?