Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate you all being here today.
My first question is for Mr. Roney from CP.
Often, the railways are criticized a lot. It's only because, of course, you are such a huge part of the shipping in this country, and you serve many industries. So to use an example from my riding, when the green cars don't show up on time, the railways are criticized. Given the fact that you are so critical to the economy in terms of the shipping you provide, you are criticized from time to time. Sometimes it's deserved.
But today I would like to focus on our topic here, which is transportation technologies, and I want to give some credit where it's due as well. Certainly, the railways do a lot of important work and do a lot of great things. One of those things is very important in my riding.
I noticed the slide with the mountain scene, and I believe it was one of your trains going through my beautiful riding in Banff National Park. Something people, both residents and tourists alike, are concerned about there is collisions with wildlife, and in particular with bears. I know that CP has done a lot of great work to try to mitigate those collisions. I know, for example, that there are the vacuum cars, and there is also the partnership with Parks Canada, for which I believe millions of dollars have been spent to look at technologies that can be utilized in such ways that we can mitigate those collisions. I just wanted to give you an opportunity to highlight and share with us some of the details of that, because I think it would be useful for the committee to know about those technologies being advanced.