Tabled Tuesday, the budget says legislative changes will streamline approvals and reduce regulatory uncertainty for the planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in September that the government would speed up engineering and regulatory work on the project to get construction underway within four years.
Or a new hub forms around the train station where it ends up.
This is just pessimism. A project like high speed rail makes Montreal closer to Toronto than Ottawa was. People will build around it just like the build around every huge transportation project.