Perhaps I can take that question first.
I'll respond in English.
Mr. Badawey, I think that's a good question. From an industry perspective, our vision is for a very integrated multimodal system. You mentioned the Great Lakes. An average ship that would sail from, let's say, Montreal up to Duluth would be crossing the border 24 times on that route, so we need a very harmonized and competitive system of rules and regulations across this region. We don't really have that now. Ballast water is a good example. We've had some real challenges and we have some more work to do there, and there are a host of other issues.
We also have some cost issues to increase the competitiveness of the system. My vision would be of a system that is even more cost-competitive than it is today. It's a system that's contributing 180,000 direct and indirect marine-related jobs in Canada, so this is very important for this $6-trillion economy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region. We're moving 185,000 tonnes of cargo at 50% capacity, so we have an opportunity with some additional investment.
On the shipping side, we're going to continue to invest. Our vision is to put even more than what we've already put into new ships. We've invested over $2 billion in the latest environmentally best vessels, with all the bells and whistles. We'll continue to invest, ensuring, though, that we're going to have a more integrated and a more harmonized system, where we're addressing some of the cost issues, like on pilotage, icebreaking, and squeezing the seaway system down even more so that we have more seasonality and optimized seasonality again as part of that vision.