Thank you very much, Mr. MacDonald.
Minister, thank you for being here.
I have a general question, seeing that I only have a short amount of time.
Can you speak to the complexity of getting something like this built? Many other advanced industrialized democracies have had high-speed rail for a very long time. There's this ongoing question that's been posed frequently, I would say, by constituents over the years: Why not high-speed rail in Canada? Why haven't we been able to get it done, and how can we get it done now? I think all MPs have had this experience.