Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to the departmental officials.
Mr. Forbes, maybe I'll start with you. I realize my question falls mostly under the purview of Transport Canada, but it has to do with Canada's grain transportation network. We know it's quite a complex network. When we have problems in the Prairies, it can be a domino effect all the way down the line to the port of Vancouver. It affects my riding because when we have backlogs in the system, the waters off my riding, which are being considered for a national marine conservation area, end up being used as an overflow industrial parking lot for the port of Vancouver. We have a lot of ships at anchor waiting for their turn.
There have been a lot of discussions that involve the oceans protection plan and the national anchorages initiative. What I'm curious about, because I'm trying to assess how well Transport Canada is doing in this, is whether they have reached out to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for your input on some fixes we can do in the grain transportation system in trying to make it more efficient. I'm curious as to the status of those conversations between different ministries, different departments.