I thought you were going to leave the floor open to the guys from the Teamsters, because they did a great job in advancing their membership and the kind of work they do. It's refreshing to hear people come and speak about their place, and it is helpful to committee members to understand why this should be considered as an economic development project as well as a nation building project. Sometimes we don't get out of our own little communities until we hear what everybody else's communities are about. People in London missed a great opportunity today. If they had put off their symposium till tomorrow night, they would have had a guest speaker from this committee who would have just shocked everybody there. But unfortunately, that guest speaker won't be able to be there, because he's actually here, and it isn't me.
Light-heartedness aside, Mr. Hopcroft, you have raised something that others have just alluded to, and that is the creation of hubs along this corridor. Let's talk about the Ontario-Quebec line for now and switch to the Alberta line in a moment. Creating hubs along this corridor from Windsor all the way up to Quebec would be a great economic advantage. You talked specifically about London's role as a centre that would serve as an economic transportation hub. I took from what you said that you wanted London to be thought of as a model for longer-range commuting. People could live where they currently live and go to work in places like Toronto, 190 kilometres away. They could actually commute to Toronto, or to Windsor, which is almost as far, about 170 kilometres away.