Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, all of you, for such wonderful presentations.
I note that both of you talked of lightening the load, as it were, and making the manufacture of lightweight materials a focus of much of the way to reduce the energy consumption of vehicles. Are you working with the Department of Transport in regard to the rail industry, and the passenger rail industry in particular, with regard to the FRA compliance rules as to whether there will be some kind of direction to reduce the weight load on passenger rail vehicles?
As you may know, FRA compliance requires huge, expensive, and very bulky transportation vehicles, because they have to be able to withstand a crash. It's a safety issue that is not used in Europe; it's used in Canada and in the United States. As a result, our manufacturers have difficulty competing for the manufacture of these vehicles because they're set up for Europe. We don't have that here.
Is there some discussion going on with Transport Canada about these regulations?