Absolutely, and thanks for taking VIA Rail.
Essentially, the HFR project addresses dedicated track in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. The estimated costs are $4 billion. It's a four-year deployment. Estimates of corridor ridership of 9.9 million and the potential of GHG reductions are about 10.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents by 2050, which is equivalent to taking 2.3 million cars off the road. That is with the existing diesel fleets. If the project proposal is approved and they move to electrification, there will be an estimated 13.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents by 2050, which is equivalent to about 3.1 million cars off the road.
In terms of the economic impacts, it's roughly 50,000 person years of construction-related jobs and 334,000 permanent person years of jobs resulting from improved economic growth over the project's life cycle. On time improvement, performance is expected to be over 94% and trip times are supposed to be reduced by about a quarter.