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Alto high-speed rail executives received more than $2 million in bonuses last year and “they haven’t laid a single metre of track,” Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), said in a statement. The federal Crown corporation created to oversee Ottawa’s high-speed rail project handed out close to $2.8 million in bonuses between Jan. 1 and July 16 of 2025, according to government records reviewed by the CTF “Why do these train executives think they deserve huge taxpayer-funded bonuses when they haven’t laid a single metre of track?” Terrazzano said...