Originally Posted by palmanfr

I realized I forgot to reply to the second part of your question... We will be staying on the way back for 2.5 days in Toronto so we rented a car to explore the surroundings (Niagara falls for example). When aircanada forced us to spend 36 hours on the outbound, i decided to book without thinking too much another rental car (it was not that expensive, like 120 for 2 days) as the airport hotels were very pricey and the hotel we choose was a bit far. I also value freedom of being able to go wherever whenever when being in north America. I now realize that we could have done our visits with Uber and public transport (certainly the latter for downtown Toronto) but with the luggage and everything considered renting a car was not a bad option. (We also went on the day of our arrival to a neighbouring mall as we needed to get some stuff etc...)
Anyway, i filed a request to Air Canada to have the rental car and the hotel night refunded as we had to book those due to a flight cancellation on their side.