[GoTrans]

We are approaching a crisis in the provision of rail services in the less urban and more northern areas of Ontario. It is interesting to note that most of the problems are with ex CP Rail lines such as the Ottawa Valley Railway and the Huron Central. Both of these lines should be combined into one and either CP should be forced to operate them or Ontario Northland should purchase them. As you have previously stated the railways should be forced to route some trains via these routes even if purchased by Ontario Northland as there is not enough freight generated by the routes themselves. Most of Canada's so called mainline routes do not actually generate the traffic, they exist to carry the traffic between origin and destination. The routing of bridge traffic over a route does not mean that the route is not economically viable.