More than two years after the federal government set aside $3.3 million to look into the possibility of a new, faster rail link between major cities in Ontario and Quebec, only around one 10th of that budget has actually been spent.
Documents tabled recently in the House of Commons reveal that since the funding was announced in budget 2016, Transport Canada has spent a total of $386,815 on five separate studies linked to Via Rail’s high-frequency rail proposal for the Windsor-Quebec City corridor.
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