> And given the distances and terrain between major Canadian cities, trains will just never win out against air travel. With a pretty major possible exception

> And given the distances and terrain between major Canadian cities, trains will just never win out against air travel. With a pretty major possible exception on the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. Large fraction of Canada's population in a span of ~1200km. Particularly the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal span with (metro area) population totally ~11 million over 600km, a Shinkansen-speed rail would be very competitive against air travel. They're working on high frequency rail (which will also increase speeds to ~160km/hr), which should be closer to competitive, but still not great.