In the course of the committee today I heard many times about basically the ability to be able to reach different stakeholders of the region and be able to help each other.
I would like to reassert that the seaway in its mandate of stewardship of a shared resource basically has an open door to reach out to the different parties and participate to be able to see how we can improve the economy, the community reality, the social reality, and also the environmental reality that surrounds us. That's a clear mandate for us and the CMA part 3.
Also, there was a question asked earlier today about the ability for the Welland Canal to be able to have what we see as season optimization or season extension. There was an answer provided, but I would like to complement that answer with some detail.
We know about climate change. We know that climate change provides, I would say, a warmer environment to be able to have a milder set of conditions during the winter, but what climate change also brings about is what we call a greater variability. If we look at the last 12 years, basically seven of those 12 years would have provided a lot of challenges to operating the Welland Canal deep into January. Sometimes the balance between risk and the benefit of a greater season have to be contemplated. That's a portion of the answer that was not provided earlier today.