OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada’s Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, Chrystia Freeland, will hold a summit on Canadian manufacture of rail and ferry equipment on Sept. 2, 2025, Transport Canada has announced.
The event, “Made in Canada: Ferries and Rail Summit” will be held in Hamilton, Ont., and will bring together industry and government officials to discuss collaborative efforts to use Canadian steel and aluminum to build for the two industries. Transport Canada said the meeting will help “foster a mor self-sufficient and stronger industrial base in Canada” at a time when the industries face intense pressure from tariffs.
“Canada’s ferries, railways, and steel and aluminum industries are the engines that keep our economy moving,” Freeland said in a press release. “This discussion will bring these sectors together to ensure we’re building with Canadian steel and aluminum, protecting Canadian jobs, and charting the course for the strongest economy in the G7.”
The meeting comes shortly after the federal government, in concert with the governments of Ontario and Toronto, ended bidding for a contract for new Toronto subway cars in order to award it to Alstom, the only company capable of building the equipment in Canada [see “Alstom to build …,” Trains.com, Aug. 18, 2025]
