Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Because time is of the essence, I will be splitting my time with my colleagues.
I want to start by reassuring our guests. If natural resource extraction in Canada leads to more secondary processing, they are going to have even more clients. They can rest easy.
In your introduction, you talked about rail renewal. Perhaps I was mistaken but I had imagined it could also be a source of development. When you look at the rail map included in your presentation, it gives a pretty clear picture of development in the southern part of the country. However, I would have liked to have seen a dotted line indicating routes to the north, particularly in Quebec. In the context of the development of the proposed Plan Nord, we will be needing your services.
Will private companies be responsible for building their own rail lines to connect to your network or are there development plans in place for the Canadian north?