I thank you, Stan. All day, I've heard a consistent message about the issues, needs and desires in terms of investments, policy, legislation, technology, data and integration. I was talking to the analysts earlier. I think they heard it loud and clear as well, with respect to the message, overall, being individual to the participants in today's sessions.
However, the whole reason we came down here was to add to the overall value. Putting politics aside, we're getting down to business here. The whole reason we came down here, and why we are going to travel to the Asia-Pacific and, hopefully, to Montreal and the Atlantic region in the future, is to add to the overall value of what the minister is trying to accomplish here, which is well overdue. I think the Emerson report identified that, within both the national transportation strategy and trade corridor ports modernization.
I'll ask this a bit more bluntly. Maybe it's rhetorical, because some of you have already answered this question. Again, as a take-away from today's session, is there an appetite for you and for other participants that you work with on a daily basis to take the next step, to establish that trade corridor blueprint for Niagara and Hamilton and even expand into southwestern Ontario, going as far as Windsor-Detroit and even to the bottom end of the GTA?
It would be a blueprint that looks at the multimodal network and at the St. Lawrence Seaway, for example, and at CN Rail, CP Rail, roadways and airports, etc. Is there an appetite for all of you to actually be around this table over the course of the next few months to work toward that blueprint?