There are so many ways the government could spend “bailout” money, and the creation of high speed rail lines is a big one. Thousands of jobs would be created through this one initiative, providing summer jobs for students, construction jobs, steel production jobs, train cars to be built, rail lines to be manufactured and the jobs to maintain and operate these lines. With this one initiative the government could pull Canada out of recession quickly and easily. We don’t want jobs that will employ a few hundred until the snow flies. A high speed rail system would employ thousands for generations.