Try refreshing your browser, or GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s history of high-speed rail projects littered with political train wrecks Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. (A 40-year effort to establish a high-speed rail link between Calgary and Edmonton has also failed.) Since the late 1960s, the federal government has made or been involved in at least half-a-dozen failed attempts to create a high-frequency or high-speed rail network in the Ontario-Quebec corridor. Photo by Toronto Sun graphic Mark Carney touts Alto as nation-building project Carney touts Alto as a nation-building project supported by his major projects office. That’s if it ever happens because the history of Canada’s experiments with high-speed trains in the Ontario-Quebec corridor is not encouraging.