It’s wild to think that the top flights out of Ottawa are also to Toronto and Montreal, so you’d knock out a ton of flights out of that airport as well, opening those gates up for long distance flights. There’s about ten flights out of their airport to these destinations tomorrow.

Excuse my ignorance but what is being bypassed? Is that VIA-owned track not a large part of the current existing VIA route between Ottawa and Montreal (with the exception of the CN section as the train enters the metro area)? Isn't the HFR plan itself a massive bypass of the entire Ontario corridor?

If VIA HFR hypothetically falls through with political upheaval next year, do you folks think that the current momentum could be captured by a scaled down VIA upgrade in the existing corridor or will we be locked out of decent rail for another generation? Is there any room in our Quebec-Ontario...