Thank you.
I certainly appreciate the opportunity to speak with all of you today.
Ms. Murray, we'll start with you.
Obviously, ports are an essential part...and we want to see that projects can go clearly and quickly. In Bill C-39, the government has proposed a transport project office that is discretionary and would offer a single window so that proponents could go to it, but it doesn't have any teeth. It's very similar to the Major Projects Office in that it can process paperwork and whatnot, but it can't actually approve a permit.
Do you think that needs to be rectified, so that the powers that are given by law in division 1 for other types of responsible authorities should also be vested in the transportation project office or whichever office ends up being used?
