The problem is not their intentions, the problem is that there is no way for AC to prove to WestJet that they have any good intentions and that HFR will remain agnostic towards airlines. I don‘t see how this could be resolved by any other way than adding WestJet, but that still leaves KLM-AF and...

Feel free to dwelve through the records of VIA to find a more impressive growth period: Source: re-post And on most of the above metrics, VIA is on course to beat pre-Covid levels within a year or 2…

You‘d be surprised how many of my former colleagues in commercial functions (scheduling — pricing — customer relations) came straight from Air Canada. One of them is even CCO today (excellent guy, one of the leading heads behind VIA‘s unprecedented growth since 2014)...

If Cadence wins the consortium, I can see lots of litigation from the other two consortiums and also from other airlines. I‘m really not sure what the benefit of adding AC to that consortium is…

Just to be sure: I have no issue with airlines partnering up with railways for code-share purposes, but they should not have any commercial or competitive control over said railroad, as the railroads‘ interests (to have as many airlines as possible sign up while still confronting any overlapping...

It certainly adds another reason why that consortium should not be allowed to design the future of passenger rail in this country. The CDPQi has already done their best to ensure it is as miserable as possible, at least East of Montreal…

The question is not whether a passenger rail connection should be restored to Cambridge (it absolutely should!), but whether extending the Milton Line is the more cost-effective way to achieve it than branching off the Kitchener Line along the Fergus Sub…

The reason why there won‘t be GO service to Peterborough us that GO has zero interest in operating a service which has virtually zero ridership potential at stations between Locust Hill and Peterborough itself. That‘s why Peterborough‘s only chance of regaining passenger rail seevice is...

As a blanket sentence, this is complete nonsense: even if we had Hyperloops travelling between all CMAs and CAs, there would still be people insisting on driving their own cars. Instead, we should look at the modal splits and market sizes for various O-Ds and then decide where there are...

Sorry, I‘m not sure what you are referring to. Could you be more specific?

It rather sounds to me that you have conspiracy theories, but no actual evidence. The scope of HxR can be scaled back to match the government’s desired funding size - and if that’s zero, then we’ll probably get something which more closely resembles VIA’s initial pitch. But, again, the...

I keep asking here what evidence there actually is for the theory of PP or the Conservatives hating HFR (or VIA) and all I got was a newspaper article from 2012, when VIA’s subsidy need was higher than today and its ridership substantially lower, while proposing something like HFR would have...

As much as I admire your patient explanations, most of us regular contributors here have already assigned a well-deserved space for @micheal_can on our respective “Ignore” lists, for various reasons you are apparenty already in the progress of discovering. However, unfortunately, that only...

The Conservative’s criticisms of the CBC are well documented and none of them seem to apply to private investors queuing to invest billions to modernize our intercity passenger rail networks. If you have anything beyond conspiracy theories to back up your claims, you shouldn’t have any trouble...

That’s why they asked each proponent for two different alignments (one for HFR and one for HSR): For those segments which overlap, you already build HSR-ready (so that you can later upgrade to HSR at minimal total cost) and the rest you build as cheap as possible (because it would eventually be...

I believe you both agree that the Brightline model depended on very specific and extraordinary circumstances which are simply not realistically reproduceable anywhere on this side of the border. Similarly, I don’t think that the nuances between your positions warrant getting personal here…

Both, in the case of Wynne’s HSR election stunt and the Carbon Tax now, these policies were/are highly controversial amongst the Conservative’s core constituents and the Conservative’s campaign was/is very transparent about their intentions post-election-victory. Has PP publicly said anything...

All the examples you cite would have involved massive financial commitments by the taxpayers, cancelling them was thus consistent with fiscal conservatism (and at least in the case of Wynne’s HSR “proposal”, there never was any sincerity of the outgoing government to actually follow through). If...

Correct, but the fuzz was about train #651 (KGON@05:32/TRTO@08:25), which was eventually revived as #641 (OTTW@04:19/TRTO@08:48). #643 operates much later (OTTW@08:34/TRTO@13:18).

Again, how do you want any provincial railroad(s) to effectively manage the overlapping intra-Ontarian, intra-Quebec and inter-provincial routes? You need all Corridor routes under one roof and HFR would achieve that. The CPC is pro-infrastructure, pro-investment and anti-spending. As long as...