You will have to explain that to the people of Calgary, Saskatoon, Victoria, and St.John's.................they didn't get the memo.
I am NOT trying to blame VIA's horrible service on the administration itself. The reality is that VIA didn't have a chance to succeed as soon as it was created. It was told to run an effective passenger rail service without owning any tracks and having to serve every God forsaken outpost in the country. This has resulted in the service being poor, unreliable, slow, and expensive. People may love the idea of a government national rail passenger service but that does not change the fact that VIA has been a colossal failure by every metric.
In short, the VIA experiment didn't work and with every increasing freight traffic, there is no reason to think it will in the future. The government should do Canadians a favour and ditch the system once and for all.