Not that I am aware of. I know there was a report. I'm not sure if it was from this committee, but there was a route that the federal government had studied--and I'm not sure if it went as far as a proposal--that was a direct route, some years ago, back in the nineties, I believe. It went from Ottawa directly to Toronto. The route would have passed by Kingston somewhere in the neighbourhood of Sharbot Lake, which is about 80 kilometres north of Kingston. We want to make sure that this is not the preferred route. As I said, the costs of that route are substantially more. The environmental assessment will hold up construction on that route for a substantially longer period of time.
And where you have the right-of-way owned by the province at this time--not only Highway 401 but Ottawa could also use highways 417 and 416 as a right-of-way for the high-speed rail connection--it just makes sense to keep it south in a more conducive construction climate.