By Ian Ross, Northern Ontario Business; June 7, 2019
Shifting the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) to a new provincial ministry might drive more rail car refurbishment business to North Bay and help deliver a better passenger train service to the North, said a union boss with the Crown agency.
Andy Mitchell, president of Unifor Local 103 at Ontario Northland, was responding to a recently revealed partnership between Ontario Northland and Metrolinx to prepare a business case on the return of the train, cancelled by the McGuinty government in 2012.