Thank you to our witnesses, Mr. Sidebottom and Mr. Cormie, for presenting at committee here today.
Mr. Cormie, being from Manitoba, I represent the riding of Provencher, which is in the southeast corner of Manitoba, and it's the corner of Manitoba that your entire Minnesota transmission line will run through once it's been built. Just looking back at the construction of Bipole III, which is almost complete, I recognize that under the mandate of the previous government you were required to go around the west side of the lake when going around the east side would have made much more economic sense at the outset of the project. In the process of doing that, you actually built large poles and transgressed over some of the most pristine agricultural land in the province. I'm wondering what efforts are being made by Manitoba Hydro to not make that same mistake with the Minnesota transmission line.