There's very little freight traffic on the corridor's "Ottawa spur" (from Brockville through Ottawa and down to Coteau). The entire spur, save for a very small section through Smiths Falls where it travels through a freight rail yard, is now owned by VIA. I'm pretty sure that rail yard is the only place in the entire Ottawa spur that VIA actually interacts with freight; I take the train between Kingston and Ottawa constantly and I've never seen a freight anywhere other than Smiths Falls along the route.
So on the Brockville, Smiths Falls, and Alexandria subdivisions, the only issue is VIA trains waiting for each other, which can be fixed with 7km sidings.
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