Well, as a city, we've certainly had titanic struggles with CPR to retain the right to keep former interurban tracks available for transportation corridors. That battle was very expensive and, I believe, was fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Under provincial law, we're subject to the decisions of TransLink, which is the regional transportation authority, and it is working in its planning to facilitate the development of high-speed rail. I don't know if Mr. Dhaliwal is still there, but certainly the Washington State authorities, and I think TransLink too, are alive to the reality that it may be necessary to link higher- and high-speed rail to connections in Surrey, for example, where it would tie into the SkyTrain line and that kind of thing.
With regard to the business case for the extra investment, I think that's a discussion in which the minister needs to engage in a more straight-up way. I don't mean to say “straight-up” in the sense that he hasn't been direct and candid; I just think that we really do need to sit down, study the policy, and see if there are steps that can be taken to encourage this step. There's a huge investment available that would benefit B.C., for a relatively modest investment on our side, and the American side certainly is puzzled and unable to communicate. I didn't have the material necessary to communicate what the basis of the rejection was. They certainly didn't feel that they were already paying and would have to simply include that in their business plan.