Passenger Trains > Canada: Toronto-Quebec HSR

Not sure if these go here in Passenger Trains or in the Canada section, but....The Trudeau government will announce plans for a high-speed train linking Quebec City and Toronto in the coming weeks, Radio-Canada has learned.Proponents of the project hope the train will take passengers from Montreal to Toronto in three hours. By car, it takes about five-and-a-half hours to travel between the two cities.Sources told Radio-Canada the train will travel 300 kilometres per hour — double the speed of Via Rail's current trains.Ottawa announced plans back in 2021 to build what it called a "high-frequency" (HFR) rail corridor with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Laval and Quebec City. Sources told Radio-Canada the federal government has now decided the Toronto-Quebec City link will be high-speed.The train would use a newly built, separate electrified track and run frequently. In addition to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, it would serve Trois-Rivières, Laval, Ottawa and Peterborough.Sources told Radio-Canada the federal government has chosen a winning bidder out of three competing consortia and is expected to announce the news in the next few weeks.[...]
Federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto | CBC News <phorum break> <phorum break> ------------------OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government is seriously considering making the proposed High-Frequency Rail project linking Toronto and Quebec City a true high-speed line, according to a government official.The CBC reports that Jean-Yves Duclos, public services and procurement minister, said Monday that the models for the high-frequency project, which would build a separate, passenger-only rail line for much of the Toronto-Quebec City corridor, “are quite close to a high-speed train … you can achieve quite fast trains even with high frequency trains. The next step is to go to a high-speed train, and that’s an option which is being seriously considered.”
Canada’s High Frequency Rail could become high-speed project - Trains
 

Will this allow equipment to be freed up for more service West of Ontario?

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Yeah, in about ten years or so, if it get's built.