June 28, 2016
ACR Passenger Train
In 2014 when Transport Canada, under the previous government cancelled the subsidy for the Algoma Central passenger train I wrote to Minister Lisa Raitt to express my dismay. I recently heard that although Transport Canada did agree in 2015 to three years of continued funding for that service through the Remote Passenger Rail Program, the service has been suspended since July 2015. Since you may not have seen the letter that I sent to Minister Raitt, I have decided to write directly to you as the new Minister of Transport.
As an artist and environmentalist I was horrified to hear about the potential closing of the Algoma Railway passenger service.