Unpublished Newswire

OTTAWA — Newly minted NDP leader Avi Lewis says he has concerns about Liberals’ high-speed rail megaproject but isn’t necessarily against the project itself. Lewis said on Monday that he was skeptical about the public-private structure of the project, a joint venture between federal Crown corporation Alto and Cadence, a private consortium that includes Air Canada and AtkinsRéalis (formerly SNC-Lavalin). “When it comes to the Alto project, I don’t think the problem is high-speed rail itself, I think it’s the formulation of the project, it’s the structure of it,” Lewis told reporters...