Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you very much to the three gentlemen for coming forward. I think I've known Mr. Gilbert and known of him from another life for decades. He doesn't know me, but I recall his days as a city councillor.
Mr. Gilbert, I don't really want to divert the discussion to the one that has just surfaced, on the estimation of cost. That's what the current feasibility study is designed to do: to upgrade and upscale and make contemporary the figures that have been derived through other feasibility studies, so that we'll have a more or less accurate figure for what the costs are.
That having been said, you really have introduced a different element into this discussion with your estimate, based on the figures you've quoted in your piece. It is an estimate that goes well beyond any estimate by any of the other feasibility studies, including the ones done by VIA, including the ones done by the railways with the help of the financial institutions and the airlines.
I'm not sure whether it's going to be helpful from here on in to talk about differing estimates--we know that's going to be dealt with before the end of the year--but I thank you for being cautious in explaining to us that the numbers are numbers, and that they differ from place to place. The value of the land will obviously be a very big one, but the cost of construction of rail, even in the orbit that you've outlined for us, still pales in comparison to the cost of construction of a four-lane separated highway once one takes into consideration the acquisition of land. I think you'd agree with that too.