On February 27, 2023, Oshawa City Council adopted a motion in support of The City of Montreal’s motion of February 20, 2023 in support of a high-speed train instead of a high-frequency train. The federal government recently made an important decision to modernize the rail network in the Quebec-Toronto corridor. The federal government is instead aiming for a high-frequency train project rather than a high-speed train project, which will only slightly reduce the travel time between the major cities located in this corridor and therefore make the project much less attractive to the population. If Canada wants to significantly reduce its green house gas emissions and reach its targets promised to the international community, significant sums will have to be invested in public transit, particularly in rail transportation — and, The high-speed train could make the Montreal-Toronto trip in 2 hours and 18 minutes and Montreal-Québec in 1 hour and 13 minutes, which would allow real competition with air transport and automobile transport, in terms of efficiency, comfort, and speed. The population residing in the Quebec-Toronto corridor represents approximately one third of the total population of Canada, which is an ideal population density for the establishment of a high-speed train system — and, The high-speed train could have enormous leverage effects for the economic and cultural development of the major cities located in this corridor, notably Montreal. Over the next ten years, Quebec and Ontario alone plan to spend $56 billion on their road network, an amount that represents approximately twice the cost of a high-speed train between Quebec and Toronto — and, Canada is the only G7 country that does not yet have a high-speed train system.
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