Mr. Fast, I'm a simple bridge manager. Having said that, we refer to “operation” in this language as well, and I think you may be referring a bit to that. The reason we bring that in is that if in the minister's wisdom he or she were to make a decision that all truck traffic on the Niagara River would cross at the Peace Bridge and only passenger traffic would cross at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, that would not have a direct impact on tolls per se, but it would have significant impact on revenue, as I'm sure the members understand, because of the differentiation between truck tolls and passenger car tolls: 40% of our traffic may be trucks, but that's more than 60% of our revenue. That would be a change in operations if the minister stepped in and made the recommendation that the class of traffic over a particular bridge be changed.
Even having said that, if the minister found that he or she had a need to address an existing, demonstrated negative impact on the efficient flow of traffic over the border, that would certainly give the minister the ability to step in and do just that.
