Thank you very much.
My questions will be primarily to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as they relate to the port in the St. Lawrence Seaway a bit more than the Alberta government does. I have three questions.
First, this is probably the first time you've seen Churchill and Thunder Bay, along with Vancouver and Montreal, expressing their concern about the destruction of the Wheat Board with regard to what can happen, particularly to the marine industry. The immediate demise of the port system and marine transportation and the seaway are of obvious concern to people in my riding and all the way down through eastern Canada.
Second, with the destruction of the Wheat Board, what would possibly happen to the railcar system that currently exists if it indeed becomes a north-south system as opposed to an east-west Canadian system?
Third is something that.... In an earlier life, I was the director of marketing for the Port of Thunder Bay. I'm well aware that in Regina, in Saskatoon, and at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, there are a large number of research facilities, and indeed head offices and grain company offices. With the destruction of the Wheat Board, even from the Vancouver point of view, are you fearing that things will happen, that instead of going to Vancouver they will go to Seattle, and instead of going to Winnipeg and Saskatoon they will go to Minneapolis and Saint Paul?
Those are my three questions. Thank you.