Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
This country was built, of course, around a railway. It is the only country, I think, with a mythology around a railway, if you're familiar with Gordon Lightfoot's great Canadian Railroad Trilogy. That's rather unique.
The first public-private partnership in Canada, of course, was the CPR. I looked at the comments made back in 1998 that the private sector could not go it alone. This may have been done, Mr. Chairman--I'm not on this committee--but I'd be curious about the witnesses' comments with regard to a policy framework.
We keep saying we've fallen behind. We know the economic advantages and we know the environmental advantages, etc. If you were constructing a policy framework to present to government, what key elements in terms of the objectives you're looking for would help in this endeavour? What outcomes are we looking for? What are the key instruments to achieve those objectives?