Mr. Langis, I guess when you talk about a competitive disadvantage, your position is a little different from that of the airlines. The airlines cater to a particular class of passenger. By class I mean—let me monetize that word—people who are prepared to pay, let's say, in a corridor upwards of $400 for a return trip, whereas your clientele has a different class of usage and your price point is considerably lower. So you're not competing with the airlines. But in assuming that the train passenger business—VIA, for example—today is not putting you at a disadvantage, because you have 10 million passengers and VIA has only 4.1 million, so presumably you're doing okay, they're already getting $52 per passenger as a subsidy. So presumably if that were still the case going forward with high-speed, you wouldn't have a problem. That is what I gather from your brief.
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