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^ It would be nice, but let's face it, nationalization of the existing railways isn't going to happen. Any solutions will have to be within those constraints. In a place like HRM that might mean building a parallel railway track for commuter rail which, IIRC, has already been explored in some depth there.

It's really all just bandaids until the feds step up to the plate to build an exclusive passenger only track between the principal corridor cities in Ontario/Quebec and I suppose Alberta, but we are far from the point where that is really enough of a necessity to justify the massive capital costs.