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Also note that AC often flies one of its non-ExecFirst planes into FCO so it will not be true business class.
Actually not quite accurate. With the exception of next month (presumably due to last minute aircraft availability issues), both YYZ-FCO and YUL-FCO have offered flights with full XF for several years now. In fact the A330 will operate YYZ-FCO starting in June, while the B777 operated two Summers ago. The non-XF aircraft are pretty much dedicated to DUB, ATH and BCN for S2012.
Bear in mind that while F/Class is wonderful, considerable time will be added to your itinerary if connecting via an additional gateway (eg - YVR-YUL-ZRH-FCO)