Thank you for your question, Ms. Laverdière.
I will try to answer your question in French, but I might have to switch into English since I always think in English.
As to the ports in northern Canada, including Churchill, I must point out that our association represents Canadian port authorities, which is a subset of ports in Canada.
The Arctic has great development potential. The only thing we can say, however, is that we are ready to help, to share our knowledge and experience should the government decide to create a port authority for the ports in the Arctic.
Canadian shipping companies certainly have a great deal of experience. They already serve the Arctic. As I said, with the opening of the Northwest Passage, there is tremendous potential which one hopes will be developed.
The Port of Churchill is a private port. It was privatized by the government. We have seen that the Port of Churchill was in competition with the Thunder Bay Port Authority for wheat shipments. We often wondered why concessions had been made to support the Port of Churchill, since it was a very important location, although that took business away from the port of Thunder Bay.
In our opinion, one of the consequences of the potential closing of the Port of Churchill would be that those shipments would then go to the port of Thunder Bay.