This has been said and observed multiple times, but in general, it is harder and harder to accomplish great things in Canada. We have so many frameworks, municipal, provincial and federal laws, and processes that final decisions about infrastructure investments are never made.
As I said in my opening statement, both the Quebec and Ontario governments have legislation in place to fast-track transit projects. We drew a lot on those measures, so this isn't uncharted territory. We saw, for instance, that the process behind the Réseau express métropolitain worked, resulting in the rapid transit system's running all the way to the island of Laval and other parts of Montreal and providing even further coverage in the future. This major infrastructure project is the result of that process.
We are drawing not only on existing principles in provincial legislation, but also on the desire to accelerate major projects. Because of that, I do think we can compare the high-speed rail network project to the building of the seaway and the Confederation Bridge, times in our history when Canada dared to dream big.