My biggest concern, and I'll try to sum it up as quickly as I can.... Like Vance, I'm from Niagara, and we have the St. Lawrence Seaway. Niagara residents are uniquely impacted because the seaway cuts the peninsula in half. There's a review, and I'm concerned when looking at your slide deck, which says that Transport Canada will compile and assess the review's key findings with a view to supporting the renewal of the framework. It seems like there's already a determined outcome for the review.
My biggest concern representing the residents of St. Catharines is that the seaway doesn't interact with the municipalities; it doesn't interact with the people. Though we're told that billions of dollars in trade goes by, we sit at the shoreline and wave as it goes by. We're impacted by the bridges. We're impacted by delays, and we're impacted by the seaway's failure to develop any of their economic land.
Why isn't the department consulting Niagara residents, and is the review already a determined process?