English: JASPER -- rail advocates, business people, elected officials met in 1984 to define the need to restore rail passenger service between Vancouver, BC, Jasper and Edmonton. (It had been discontinued by the Trudeau government in 1981.) The discontinuance had a severe impact on Japanese tourism through the Vancouver gateway. Edmonton Mayor Laurence Decore in turtle-neck sweater pays intense interest. His chief-of-staff Alex Macdonald looks exhausted.