Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again for your excellent responses.
In 2015, I was very pleased to be living in a community in my riding of New Brunswick Southwest where we welcomed the ambassadors of the CETA member countries, and we welcomed them as well to my home town of St. Andrews. Many people and many businesses across the Atlantic region are very, very much in support of the CETA deal, so I wanted to put that out there.
I also represent a riding with five international border crossings and one deep-sea port, and we also border on the port of Saint John, which is the third-largest port in Canada.
I have a number of questions, so I'll probably get cut off.
In terms of the United States, if the United States is not a member of CETA, Canada should have a significant advantage to be the springboard between goods from the U.S. to Europe, and from Europe back to the U.S. How prepared logistically are our rail services, our port infrastructure, our trucking, and our shipping to accept the goods from the U.S. to export to the EU and vice versa? That's my first question.