RE: chinese rail money for quebec nsross1. Your post re RRs most telling, thanks.
Re the ROF, its NS RR may end up being owned by a KWG/DDI/CCC - China partnership, whereby the RR can't charge & do whatever.
From your post:
"At this point, he said he does not see a CN-run railway as being in the best interests of his company. He described a user-owned railway — wherein the company teams up with others mining companies active along the Quebec-Labrador border — as “problematic” as well.
On the other hand, Adriana’s China-based partner, an arm of Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. (WISCO), has put forward an offer to see through the construction of a line for specifically transporting Lac Otelnuk iron ore."