Starting May 9th VIA will have a new CEO it has been announced:
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/03/29/trudeau ... -via-rail/
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/03/29/trudeau ... -via-rail/
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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
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.