Mr. Mario Péloquin at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

I can't really speak to the numbers that the Via Rail HFR team has analyzed and developed. At a high level, I can say that a train is much more carbon emissions-efficient than an airplane or the 250 cars, approximately, that you would need to travel the same distance.

There's a real green benefit to operating a train as opposed to all the other transportation modes over long distances.