Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank our presenter. I really enjoyed going through this. I am a GTA member of Parliament, and as often as I am able, I do make use of VIA Rail and find it a very advantageous way to travel. I get lots of work done on the train, and I thoroughly enjoy the travel.
Having done extensive travel, I have had the opportunity to use the high-speed rail in Tokyo, and I've also had the opportunity to use the high-speed rail in France, between Paris and Strasbourg. It's a wonderful mode of travel.
One of the things this report said was that air carriers could lose 44% of their projected corridor ridership in 2005. So this is picking up a little bit from where Mr. Bevington was. In these studies, have we looked at any of the things that have gone on in Europe? I would suggest that this is probably a very dated comment. We've seen extensive change in Ontario, particularly with the advent of new airline carriers coming out of Toronto, the movement of another airline carrier from York region to London, servicing London to Ottawa. Could you make any comment on that? I know that this will be part of what you're saying.
Maybe I'll just lump all of my questions into one, and then I'll let you address them.
You were talking about the increasing opportunity for travel, and I think that's a very important part of this study. Looking at corridors, right now we're talking about Montreal to Toronto. Is there any possibility that corridor option might include York Region? I obviously have a vested interest in seeing it service York Region. Because we have hydro corridors, for instance, that already come through many of these areas, is there any opportunity to make use of those corridors that already exist?
My third question is this. We're only looking at Windsor to Quebec at this point. Would there be any extension of this study into Calgary to Edmonton? Are we looking at other areas in the country?
I'm sorry, I've kind of lumped them all into one.