CP and CN are Canada’s largest freight carriers, which are privately owned. They see VIA as nothing but a burden on their highly efficient, well oiled freight machine (can you feel the sarcasm in my words? seriously, fuck them both). They refuse to even let VIA run on the vast majority of their tracks, going as far as to remove tracks they no longer and making the infrastructure as passenger service unfriendly as possible to discourage VIA from getting any ideas, what makes you think they’d, A, let VIA directly compete with them with their own freight service, or 2, let VIA stick their carriages on their freight trains?
They don’t want to.
CP and CN are Canada’s largest freight carriers, which are privately owned. They see VIA as nothing but a burden on their highly efficient, well oiled freight machine (can you feel the sarcasm in my words? seriously, fuck them both). They refuse to even let VIA run on the vast majority of their tracks, going as far as to remove tracks they no longer and making the infrastructure as passenger service unfriendly as possible to discourage VIA from getting any ideas, what makes you think they’d, A, let VIA directly compete with them with their own freight service, or 2, let VIA stick their carriages on their freight trains?