Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here today.
My home town of Saint John, New Brunswick, is obviously very much a port community. One of the things I thought we would do is take advantage of your being here today to have you give us a couple of examples and also some help, and maybe we'll leave you with some homework.
I think my colleague Ed had talked about the municipality services and the kinds of things that a community needs to have as a result of working with a port. In Saint John, for example, there are new challenges for policing and security. The post-9/11 environment has created new challenges for your industry.
We all acknowledge that they are centres of activity, and in certain circumstances, whether it's in Montreal or the west, there are opportunities when certain lands may be surplus and these are community opportunities when, in concert, working with a community or a municipality or an organization, there may be a joint development that would occur.
I wonder if you would share with us your philosophy. Also, when we're talking about infrastructure costs, I'd like to hear from you if there is a study, and if there isn't a study, whether you would consider a study as to what the global bill of our ports would be for infrastructure, not blue-skying, but to say how much money would be re-invested in the communities from Quebec, the Maritimes, the west, where we need, as a global competitive country, to be able to attack the global competition that's occurring in China and India. As a country, what are some of the general principles we might move forward with?