Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Emerson, Mr. Al-Katib, welcome. It is a pleasure for us to get your insight and expertise on the work we are doing.
Mr. Emerson, as the new arrival in the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, I spent the last few days reading your report. So feel free to correct me if my understanding of what you said is in error.
If we proceed from the general to the specific, it seemed to me at first that the entire report is based on the fact that our market is already competitive. After hearing from a number of witnesses, I get the impression that we can at least question Canada's competitiveness in transportation.
What leads you to the assertion that the market in Canada is competitive?