Michele Mario Elia, CEO of Italian State Railways met December 1st in Rome with Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, CEO of Via Rail. Italferr, the Italian State Railways Group engineering firm, operates on the Italian and international markets in the field of railway transport engineering. The article states that Italferr is doing exploratory work in Canada. What could it all mean, especially while the current anti-passenger rail Conservative government is still in power?