Thank you, colleague. If time permits, I will ask the Deputy Minister to answer with respect to Mr. Grégoire's note regarding comments made by the Auditor General.
Having said that, I want to reassure you and the people of the Magdalen Islands. I have had discussions and meetings with the Mayor of Cap-aux-Meules. There has been correspondence between us on this very topic. You know as well as I do that the snow melt will make it possible to reorganize ferry services.
The commitment I made to the Mayor and the people of the Magdalen Islands is for a pilot project to begin in the coming year, in order to acquire some concrete experience with this. I hope to table a business plan with the government, so that we can eventually consider providing service 12 months of the year to the people of the Magdalen Islands. This is a formal commitment that I have made; I addressed it in writing to the Mayor of the Magdalen Islands and reiterated it in public. As a general rule, Mr. Laframboise, when a Conservative makes a commitment, in Quebec and in Canada, promises are kept. That is what Quebeckers remember about our administration.