Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you for being here today.
I won't repeat the actual numbers that my colleague across the way went over. Obviously the statistics tell the whole story here in my mind that these are underused border crossings, if in a 24-hour period we have the kinds of numbers we're talking about.
I just want to commend you, actually, in this time of fiscal restraint and austerity, for taking the view to recommend that we do change and restructure things to be more efficient. I think this is what Canadians expect of us, actually, to look at underused resources and to reallocate where it makes sense and where these border crossings are in proximity to other close border crossings that can be utilized.
I've met you at a conference involving border security issues, Mr. Rigby, and I know that at that conference there were a lot of commercial traffic issues that were brought up by various business interests on both sides of the border. I'm wondering, in your deliberations in terms of their needs, the needs that would affect both the U.S. and the Canadian economies, how they have weighed in to your decisions or your recommendations here.