Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to your Canadian Parliament, ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. Laneuville, you mentioned the Saint-Charles River. I come from Château-d'Eau. I was brought up about 500 feet from the Saint-Charles River. I know the place very well, and I know that floods have been happening there for a long time and it is getting worse. Thank you for talking about that region, which I am very familiar with. I will soon be 60 years old, and I have spent my entire life in that area.
You may have heard the testimony given by Ms. Gomez just now, when she talked about her work with the city of L'Assomption on a project involving the use of salt to de-ice roads. That collaboration has been fruitful and fertile for the last four years, but while I don't want to be making jokes in bad taste, let's say that it seems to be running out of gas. It is not getting enough support.
What are your thoughts about a project like this? It really looks good. We are talking about de-icing, which is not unique to this region. This project can be applied everywhere in Canada, in thousands of towns, or even in the hundreds of thousands of driveways where people sometimes spread salt, although that is happening less and less, and that is a good thing.
Why is it that a project like this, which is very attractive and has potential for pretty spectacular expansion, since it could be applied everywhere in Canada, has not managed to be adopted more widely?