I'm one of the two MPs from Thunder Bay. If you look at a map and see how far inland ocean-going boats can go, you'll see that we're really lucky with our geography. Thunder Bay is right in the middle of the continent, as is Duluth. However, we basically take no containers at the Thunder Bay port, even though—from my understanding from shipping people—increasingly, over the years, shipping has gone from bulk cargo to container cargo. If the Thunder Bay port wants to bring in something in containers.... Sometimes it has to. For example, it brought in a windmill. It brought in the big windmill turbines, but the individual parts come in containers. They had to go to Duluth instead of Thunder Bay.
To my understanding, there are very few containers on the Great Lakes, which leads to me to.... Are you familiar with the report by the Chamber of Marine Commerce, “Unlocking the potential of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System: Economic analysis of container reception services in six Eastern Canadian ports”? Are you familiar with that?