Ultimately, it's electricity that's the saviour to a lot of this. We're not going to get high-speed rail without electric trains. We're not going to get a reduction in greenhouse gases without electric trains. We're not going to get a reduction in pollutants in urban centres if we're running diesel trains. That's part of why there's a group in Toronto called the Clean Train Coalition, which has been pushing the provincial government very hard to move to electric-based rail systems for its regional rail in the city of Toronto. So far it's extremely difficult in Canada to move that yardstick.
What is it going to take to actually create the infrastructure, to build that infrastructure? The freight railroads don't really want to. They're happy with diesel. They're just going to keep charging more and more. The City of Montreal wants an almost entirely electric transportation system within 10 years. They have the right vision. What are we going to need to do federally to make it happen more universally across the country?