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It would be a good start towards having rails service in the big urban corridors. Especially Toronto-Montreal and even Calgary-Edmonton. The latter not being as densely populated, but super easy to build.
Travelling long distance by bus is akin to torture so ideally in the medium term I think we should be building a network that combines both. A bus network that could bring us into rail hubs where we could hop on a train for longer trips. Longer term we should be transferring over to high speed rail generally.
There's no financial benefit to having such a network in Canada given airplanes exist for quick travel. There simply isn't a need to move a large number of Canadians across the country on a regular basis, and the country is HUGE. Building that much high speed rail would be a waste of resources.
We'd be far better off investing in a connection for Vancouver down the west coast of the US, and Toronto/Montreal down the east coast of the US.
That paragraph is straight out of google. Saying that we don't need high speed rail because we do not have the volume is blatantly untrue.
Highway 401 doesn't even go "across Canada" its literally a small section of the most populated area of southern Ontario.
We could certainly use high speed rail for specific links in Canada, just not a cross country link.