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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You might get away with Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto, but nowhere else in Canada has the population density to support it.
The cost to build such a line from Vancouver to Calgary would be astronomical. I can't in any way see enough demand to justify it.
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There is talk of high speed rail from Windsor to Toronto being built in Ontario (with presumably stops in Kitchener/Waterloo and London)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...says-1.3440700
I suspect Ottawa/Kingston/Toronto would be the next on the list (and to Montreal/Quebec City if Quebec wanted to pay).
I do think it will be a tough sell even here. You'd really need people willing to commute from Windsor/London to Toronto. Real estate is way cheaper there than anywhere near Toronto but that's still a long haul for work each day (the article says it cuts down the Windsor to Toronto trip from 4 hours to 3, which I just can't see being worth the upgrade).