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Liberals Propose Bill to Streamline Toronto-Quebec City High-Speed Rail Line

National Post

The Carney government is proposing to grant the Crown corporation behind the high-speed railway between Toronto and Quebec City sweeping new powers to accelerate the acquisition or expropriation of land for the project. A new High-Speed Rail Network Act proposes to exclude the massive railway project from review by the Canadian Transportation Agency by deeming it de facto approved and barring the agency from rescinding the approval, and to cut it into segments of up to 50 kilometres which would each be reviewed and approved individually.

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