Thank you, Madam Chair.
Gentlemen, thank you for being here.
Let’s start with the usual caveat. As I said to the minister, we are in favour of a train. We think it’s a great project. I am the first to suffer from the difficulties of travelling between Ottawa and the metropolitan area. It is important to repeat this, but once again, we have parliamentary work to do. In some respects, our current position is that Bill C-15 still goes quite far.
It was a somewhat general question, but I asked the minister why, if the expropriation laws prevented us from building anything large in this country, we did not simply change them so that everyone would be equal before the law.
Why are we only doing it for this project? He replied that it would be senseless. So what the minister himself is telling us—he said it here, it’s on the record—is that these legislative amendments are senseless, except for this project. What makes what is senseless elsewhere make sense for Alto?