Montreal Gazette - Quebec, Vermont push for high-speed rail

The strong threads and interdependencies that have long connected Quebec and Vermont will be woven even tighter during coming years - through high-speed rail and hydro-electricity, the heads of the Quebec and Vermont governments forecast Friday.

A public sit-down between Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat elected last fall, took on aspects of a high-voltage, bilateral afternoon love fest…

"Put yourself in my shoes" on high-speed rail, Charest told about 300 people at a downtown hotel during the wrap-up of the annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.