Tabled Tuesday, the budget says legislative changes will streamline approvals and reduce regulatory uncertainty for the planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in September that the government would speed up engineering and regulatory work on the project to get construction underway within four years.
There are a number of ideas of how to go through Montreal, one alternative is making like a Y shaped pattern through Lucien-L’Allier (a commuter rail end station). Still would require a big detour.