Thank you, Madam Chair.
Gentlemen, thank you for being with us this morning.
I don't know if you're following the election campaign in Quebec, but when it started, the three main topics seemed to be health, education and work. A few weeks ago, a fourth point was added, a point that is so important that it could become decisive on election day: the whole issue of the environment. When we talk about economic development, we often hear that it must go hand in hand with the environment, but we talk very little about it. So I have a few questions with an environmental bent.
The first is for representatives of the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.
You mentioned earlier that the seaway's navigation season has been reduced to 280 working days. Is this longer season due to our technological advances, whether it be icebreakers or other things, or climate change?