Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time late in the day to be with us and answer our questions.
The question is for Madam Levis from CN. We heard this idea of a northern rail corridor. I'm an industrial engineer by trade, so I try to optimize everything. I spend my career doing that.
We have new volumes of critical minerals. I have many mining projects...that come and see me in northern Ontario at Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Saguenay. That, to me, speaks of a significant potential increase in volume that needs to be shipped within the next few years.
The ports that you mentioned earlier where CN is able to bring materials currently are not deep-sea facilities...12 months a year. They're more lakers or intermediates, which requires more offloading and onloading.
The préfets are talking about this northern corridor that could go from northern Ontario to Saguenay. I'm wondering If CN has actually studied that, and if CN has updated the volume potential forecast requirements into the future to see how much it would cost, if it would be feasible and the kinds of volumes. Is that a better idea than your current network, depending on whether we want to ship to international markets out of Canada?