Thank you very much for your remarks. I find in you another person, part of that brotherhood from the municipal arena, who is very sympathetic, not only to the issues that you've raised, but also to the issues that deal particularly with our communities.
Just to reassure you, the $591 million is new money. It doesn't impinge on any of the infrastructure money announced in the budget. It's new money, and it will be spent over an eight-year period.
The reason it has been set up in that fashion is we feel land claims and environmental assessments might push back the completion of some projects. So it's a more realistic approach to moving these projects forward.
You have mentioned previous projects in your comments. We're reviewing the mix of projects that were there before. In the short term my colleague, Minister Emerson, will be able to announce the details of what is going to occur in this file, and how we're going to go about it.
You're absolutely correct when you mention it's not just a Vancouver or a British Columbia issue. It's a gateway for all Canada to access markets and the gateway initiative is a very fine example of how we can better our skills and better our ways of doing things, so we have unimpeded access to these markets in a seamlessly integrated fashion.
That will also of course include a significant role for the railways in this project. Once again we will be able to have a taste of all this when my colleague announces the details of the project.