Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Mr. Ross, I want to address an issue that I find sensitive. The government has already invested $4 billion in a high-speed rail project that doesn't exist. It's a project for which no independent cost-benefit analysis has been conducted. It's a project that was developed without any form of consultation and for which the government has adopted, through Bill C‑15, measures that create two classes of citizens when it comes to expropriation. Those along the Alto corridor will be second-class citizens, as they are being stripped of the right to request a hearing to assess the need for expropriation.
We know that Alto will have to finance 15% of the project and that it will expropriate more citizens than necessary for the purpose of capturing land value. Alto has already spent a significant amount of money on lobbying and media advertising. It has almost become a communications firm that engages in intimidating behaviour toward farmers, particularly in my riding.
I'm very concerned. I think you know that. The people of Mirabel are concerned, too, and rightly so. I would like to know what you think of the measures adopted as part of Bill C‑15 and, more generally, what you think of the government's approach to this project.