VIA Rail

[SammyOES]

Although not so much if you take into account the time getting to and from the train station.   At the moment, the train competes with the bus - we can surely do better than that!

Yeah, exactly.  I'm thinking door-to-door time.  

Just as an extreme example, I use to prefer doing an 8 hour drive than doing a 1 hour flight from NYC to my parents place because the door-to-door time was usually a bit faster and more reliable.  Plus much less co-ordinating with other people / modes of transportation.

Edit: Also, I was stuck more in the Kitchener - Toronto mindset and less about Toronto-Montreal.