Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Essentially, what we're endeavouring to do by these motions of amendment to clause 2 is broaden the definition that is contained within the act itself. If we look at how the act is defined now—and please excuse me if I go back and forth on this, with the three pages—what we currently have is the emphasis on a competitive, economical, and efficient transportation system. What we're looking to do is broaden the accessibility and broaden the definition of how our transportation system would respect the environment and have the highest practicable safety and security standards.
It's a way of redefining the approach of our national transportation policy that I don't think anyone at this table would disagree with. I do think it's important that we be very specific when we put forward what is essentially a preamble of intention in terms of policy. It is important that we cover the bases in a way that we would all define that policy, and we're putting forward these motions in a way that defines more specifically what the national transportation policy should do.