Is passport control fast if I'm traveling back to Canada from Amsterdam?

You have to have a human look at your passport and stamp it as exiting Schengen Treaty Zone. How quick? Who knows. Allow plenty of time.

The process itself shouldn't take long. However, the line to get to an officer can be long.

In Berlin in April I waited just over 30 minutes to see an officer. Give yourself time.

I rate AMS as the worst airport - for check in, security, and immigration/customs - that I have been through (LEAVING Europe) post-COVID. Three hours seems the bare minimum for "comfort" which is, of course, the recommended time allotment but one I haven't needed anywhere else.

Hopefully, the person three spaces ahead of you isn't carrying an ornamental dagger in their carryon through security like we encountered in August. That makes security processing real fun :D

So how did it go?

Was smooth as silk
Arrived in Canada on Friday night from Amsterdam.

Here's how it went at Schipol for my scheduled departure to Montreal on Fri Oct 18th at 12:30 pm

I then caught a smaller plane also Air Canada from Montreal to Toronto which is where i live.

Anyways my experience at Schipol..

I got to the airport around 7:30 am
1 min through Security
1 min for Passport control
Then went to my Gate

Was super fast.

Not sure why people are dogging Schipol and saying wait times are bad.
It was as smooth as silk, at least for me.

The only time I had to wait longer than 10 minutes, was when I arrived in Montreal, Canada from Amsterdam, I had to go through customs but they had self service stations where you could declare if you were bringing anything in in a few minutes.
The line up for that was like 8 minutes.

All in all, the total trip back was a walk in the park.

It may have been smooth for you, but it isn't for everyone. We went through there in late August and it was the definition of a sh*tshow. They sent everyone to the automated machines, yet the machines were not working properly and were extremely finicky. The lines for the actual agents were nonexistent and they only let people in those if they had a very tight connection. In the automated machines lines, there was nobody there to help. One lady was only making sure everyone was staying in the straightest lines you could imagine, yet there was nobody to help with the machines. One poor older lady did not understand how it worked and none of us were allowed to help her, yet the agents did not help her either. Somehow she finally got through. Then we still had to have our passports stamped by an actual agent after the machine.

For any airport, many factors can contribute to why there are delays at various points of the process. We flew home to Vancouver from Amsterdam Schiphol last week and travelling in Business Class with Sky Priority access to security and passport control and we waited 15 minutes for security and a short bit for passport control; this was late morning on a weekday. Not a big deal but everyday is a different day and experience at many airports:)