In two ways--sort of a yes and a no--it did. First of all, obviously there are areas in Switzerland and so on that have snow as we do. I think the engineers felt that the design standards being applied would not be a problem. Having said that, we did not do a study of the technologies in terms of weather, etc. We did, however, acknowledge that one of the demand-side aspects of the high-speed rail is that when there's bad weather and Highway 2 closes between Edmonton and Calgary, this would offer a viable alternative to very dangerous driving conditions at those times. Those were the plus and minus sides of that question.
On June 4th, 2009. See this statement in context.