There's not much time left, but I just want to clear up something.
I was glad to hear Mr. Vaughan talk about the intelligence of our approach to infrastructure. What I was concerned about initially was the confusion of this bill with a series of other issues that have absolutely nothing to do with this bill. But the connection has been made by Mr. Freeman and Mr. Iler, deliberately, with the island authorities and with the City Centre Airport, and then by Mr. Vaughan suggesting that the resources for the port come only out of lawsuits.
I want to put on the record that the lawsuit to which they have made reference is one where the federal government—and you had one of the lawyers here before this committee explain what happened—sat down with the province and the municipal government and tried to extricate the city out of a lawsuit it was going to lose. You heard that as testimony in this committee and that the Government of Canada handed over $35 million in indemnities in order to keep the city safe, harmless from what the city viewed, because it signed on to the agreement, as an irresponsible action against the port authority among other players.
I don't think we get a clear picture of things if we confuse one with the other. So Mr. Freeman, and Mr. Iler in particular, I'm afraid that if you want to make an impact on Bill C-23, you'll have to do it a little differently.