I have just a quick comment, if I could, on the question. We did isolate and look at different communities, and obviously our sample sizes get smaller and therefore so does our precision in the estimates. But looking at individuals, we had large samples in Ontario and Quebec. We had large samples that included people from Toronto and Montreal in particular. Let me put it this way. You would probably find that we might have had maybe 400 to 500—400, let's say—out of the 1,600 to 1,700 in the sample in that corridor. You would have found not more than literally 10 or 12 who were opposed to this, even when we mentioned the kinds of numbers involved.
Granted they are not aware of all the technical difficulties, rights of way, getting in and out, but I think they also have some understanding of some of the costs involved and they understand that this would be a massive undertaking.
The levels of support were extraordinarily strong, the strongest, in those parts of the country. Support in those areas was literally in the 90% range. Respondents also were not particularly interested in higher speed and didn't understand this as a higher-speed activity. They thought of this as something that only really clicked in—and this was particularly true in Quebec—when you started getting up into the 200 kilometre per hour and even 300 kilometre per hour ranges.
So definitely before things move forward you'd want to test those more definitively, but this is an overwhelming initial endorsement.
I have one final point. Overall this was representative of the Canadian public, and 60-odd percent said this would make them far more likely to take rail in the future as an alternative or an addition to the rail patterns they were taking already. Of those, half said they would be much more likely to, and this would immediately affect their travel patterns. This was particularly true of the dedicated travelling public who are currently taking air, bus, and rail, because we looked at both behaviour in the past year and intentions for the coming year. Those were the groups that were most attracted to this particular initiative, although there were also a lot of people....
By the way, we have found that the greatest fear the Canadian public has in terms of transportation safety—and this has been a rising fear through time—is of highways and highway congestion and the comingling of transportation for freight purposes on the highway with passenger traffic going for other purposes. This is why some of the benefits were not seen as being produced by just the economic advantages but also significantly the safety advantages and the environmental advantages. Those things were felt most strongly in these parts of the country.