Ottawa spending $4.7B on new made-in-Canada Via Rail passenger cars

The Canadian Press: “For the first time in four decades, those cars will be produced and assembled and maintained in our country. Cars that used to be built in the United States will be built right here in Thunder Bay at Alstom, by the best workers in the world,” Carney said.

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon called the investment the single largest in Via Rail’s history and said the project will lead to 700 new jobs…

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