That's a very interesting question. Every time we proceed with a route change, it has a significant impact on communities that feel abandoned and communities that are now energized by having a new service.
I have long been a proponent of a bigger picture. If we take the segment between Montreal and Quebec City, I'm not necessarily against going on the north shore instead of the south shore. It means we can diminish our reliance on the bridge between Quebec and Lévis, and we can get out of the CN corridor.
However, we have to build bridges, and we have to build partnerships, and I strongly believe the solution to fix what you're talking about is quite simple.
In Montreal, we have something called commuter rail, which is trains running on one line between Montreal and Mont-Saint-Hilaire. It would be quite simple in the private sector and hopefully not excruciatingly painful for the public sector to negotiate a deal with the provincial government's Exo and quite simply bring a few of the trains that are running between Montreal and Mont-Saint-Hilaire to two more stops: Saint-Hyacinthe and Drummondville.
By doing that, you're basically serving almost the totality of the traffic with very little subsidy, compared to running trains that are going to be mostly empty if Via Rail is forced to continue to operate regular trains on the south shore.