[acottawa]

This reminds me of the Kitchener bullet train from the last provincial election (which has since disappeared). Hardly any train service in the world is profitable and even fewer pay the capex privately, hard to believe they would make a profit on the operating cost and enough of a surplus to pay the investors a return on the investment.

I wonder if this is just an election gimmick or if this is the first step of a plan to just ask the government for $3B ("sorry boss, we tried to get private investors and they wouldn't bite")