Transit, Transportation, & Infrastructure

Intercity transportation platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Build high-speed rail to connect communities between Windsor and Québec City
  • Direct the Canadian Transportation Agency to develop a plan to address accessibility concerns on aircraft and other modes of transport

    "Direct the Canadian Transportation Agency to develop a plan to address persistent complaints about accessibility on aircraft and other modes of transportation." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Consider contributing to the George Massey Tunnel, Edmonton-Calgary passenger rail, the Québec City Tramway, the Grays Bay Port and Road Project, and twinning the Trans-Canada Highway

    "Invest to build infrastructure that connects Canada, breaks down barriers, and brings people and economies closer together. We will work with all orders of government and Indigenous Peoples on critical infrastructure that connects communities. These could include contributions to projects such as the George Massey Tunnel that connects Richmond to Delta; supporting Alberta’s work on Edmonton to Calgary passenger rail; the Québec City Tramway; the Grays Bay Port and Road Project connecting the Arctic Ocean to Yellowknife and into southern Canada; and other projects such as the twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Invest an additional $250M in the Rural Transit Solutions Fund to lower costs and support developing, expanding, and operating local, regional, and cross-Canada transit

    "Make rural and small communities more affordable and accessible through investing an additional $250 million in the Rural Transit Solutions Fund. By working with provinces and territories, we will lower costs and further support the development, expansion, and operation of local, regional, and cross-Canada transit and bus solutions that help Canadians get to work, school, medical appointments, and visit loved ones." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

Conservative

  • Help fund a third link for the Québec City region

    "Third link: A Conservative government is committed to helping fund a third link, a project that is essential for the mobility, safety and economic development of the greater Quebec City region." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

Bloc

  • Appuyer le développement d’un TGV

    Le Bloc appuiera le développement d’un TGV et,

    dans l’intervalle, travaillera à des solutions aux

    retards dans le transport en commun ferroviaire

    avec toutes les parties concernées.

  • Exiger que le fédéral soutienne toutes les initiatives québécoises en matière de transport afin de décloisonner les régions

    Le Bloc Québécois exigera que le fédéral soutienne toutes les initiatives québécoises en matière de transport afin de décloisonner les régions, notamment établir ou rétablir, un service ferroviaire, améliorer l’offre de transport aérien et les initiatives régionales, la diversification des vocations des aéroports régionaux et l’encadrement des pratiques hostiles à la concurrence d’Air Canada.

NDP

  • Work with rural communities to reestablish bus routes abandoned by Greyhound
  • Create public, high-speed rail across Canada starting with the Quebec-Windsor corridor and Edmonton-Calgary-Banff
We don't have any Green policies on Intercity transportation.

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