OTTAWA — Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon insisted Monday that the federal government is listening to rural residents who are concerned a high-speed rail line will ruin their farms and their way of life, but said the project is for the “common good.”
MacKinnon was in Kingston to announce he had directed Alto, the Crown corporation overseeing the project, to include the city on the proposed high-speed rail line. Kingston was left off the government’s initial plans, but adding the city came up often during 100 days of public consultation earlier this year. The other issue to surface repeatedly in the consultations was the concern of rural residents that the line would cut their farms in half or cost them their land just to allow people to travel between cities more quickly.
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