New CEO for VIA Rail

Starting May 9th VIA will have a new CEO it has been announced:

https://ipolitics.ca/2019/03/29/trudeau ... -via-rail/

Her resume makes Anderson look highly qualified. No transportation background, much less any railroading. This defines a political pick.

bretton88 wrote: Her resume makes Anderson look highly qualified. No transportation background, much less any railroading. This defines a political pick.

There really isn't much talent to choose from, unless you promote from within, for running a North American passenger railway. Even the outgoing CEO really didn't have a transportation background being a lawyer, and he was a pick of the previous government. https://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rai ... ve-officer

I don't know enough to say one way or another if it was a political pick, but the following quote from the article would tend to lean towards it not being a political pick

According to Transport Canada, all of the picks for the Via Rail roles were made under the government’s new merit-based process for order-in-council appointments.

The notice inviting applications for the position of CEO is no longer available - at least from the sites where I saw it. Regarding qualifications there was no mention at all about any experience in transportation. The most important qualification was experience in management.