A battered Quebec rail plant expands on domestic orders

Alstom's La Pocatière factory, battered by years of layoffs, is hiring and scaling up for major domestic rail contracts, CBC reports, including a $4.7-billion VIA Rail project — an expansion tied to governments pushing to buy Canadian. The order book and the procurement politics are now the same story: the plant's revival runs through domestic contracts, and those run through how long the buy-Canadian push holds.