Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to all the presenters, and thank you for the submissions you've made.
I wanted to talk a little about the Chamber of Commerce submission that was made to our committee, in particular the attention that was paid to the infrastructure needs of northerners. I think everybody knows that the north is on the front lines of climate change. There's a very urgent need for infrastructure that meets both our current and future landscape.
Your recommendation proposes a new northern infrastructure fund, in addition to both a pan-territorial infrastructure strategy and an all-season road network strategy, all of which I would love to see in budget 2020. I want to ask a couple of questions, just to get some more detail on what your thinking is.
First of all, how do you envision the structure of these new funds and strategies? What role does the federal government need to play?