The Young Liberal wing of Liberal Party Canada  #highspeedrail  policy was approved at the Liberal Policy Convention and was prioritized as number 4 out of 26. GREAT NEWS! Let us hope the Prime Minister does not confuse  #TGV   #highspeed  rail with VIA Rail flawed, slow trains, high frequency rail proposal. Here is LINK to convention policies that were approved.

David Thomas - Railway Age - Canada’s three major railways should benefit from the Oct. 19, 2015 sea-to-sea election sweep by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeau’s party even managed to get four members of parliament elected in Alberta's two metropolises, Calgary and Edmonton—the ideological and financial anchors of the defeated Stephen Harper’s pro-pipeline and anti-rail Conservative government. Canadian voters issued the final death warrant for the ailing Keystone XL trans-border pipeline project, for which Harper was the last surviving cheerleader, having spent millions of taxpayer dollars promoting the private-sector scheme. The election of a greener government determined to redeem Canada from its reputation as an environmental pariah means a screeching halt to expansion of Alberta’s northern tar sands. New pipeline capacity is decades away because the Liberal government has promised to restore credible social and environmental assessment processes before new ...