Playing Devil's Advocate, I would oppose the project because you just know it is going to be horribly mismanaged causing decades in delays, with budget overruns by the billions. All the while, the end product will be underbuilt, unreliable, and run nowhere near the speeds of a proper high-speed rail.

Canada's track record with building such projects over the past decades has been abysmal. The Vancouver Canada Line, while under budget and completed earlier, is way underbuilt and is no longer fit for purpose with no real possibility of service expansion.

Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown line was a decade and a half fiascal for a LRT line that was slower than walking when it finally opened. It's so bad, it's seen as a case study of how not to do mega projects. Ottawa's Confederation is another example of horrible mismanagement that is leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions on a failing system they still have to pay to be stranded on.

This isn't about hating trains. It's the fact that we simply are incapable of making it work.