Interesting information, but I think they will need a fairly dramatic change in the Canadian bilateral (which, if I'm not mistaken, still requires stopovers in both directions like the old US rule, hence no direct scheduled flights now) before any scheduled route to Canada is flown. They will want to fly nonstop to YYZ; YUL is not of interest.
As for LAX, I had heard rumours of San Jose, which is an AAL hub (which would make sense); SFO is San Francisco and OAK is Oakland, which currently has no direct international flights, so SJC sounds more realistic. Also, if LAX is doing well, irrespective of whether flights are connecting, why worry?