I have a couple of other comments.
In April of last year, Mr. Garneau made the following statement: “I see transportation in Canada as a single, interconnected system that drives the Canadian economy.”
If the overall objective is to make our economy as competitive as possible on a global basis, then all the things in Bill C-49, and obviously other pieces of legislation and so on, and our trade agreements, whether NAFTA or CETA or whatever, should be geared towards that objective. One would hope, as we're talking about Bill C-49 today, that the various provisions would help lead to that objective.
I think in talking about it being an interconnected system, one of the inconsistencies that we have, and this is just an issue of a normal free market system, is that each of the players in effect is an island unto themself. They're all trying to maximize their own situation. That's, in a sense, a conundrum in terms of Mr. Garneau's view that it should be an interconnected system.
One of the governance problems, it seems to me, for the government, is how you reconcile the quite legitimate needs of private businesses to maximize the return for their shareholders on the one hand, but make sure that the system is working effectively for the whole economy on the other hand.
I think those are things that hopefully this bill will contribute to.