Thanks very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank all of you for joining us today. I'll get right to my questions, since six minutes goes by pretty quickly.
We know that Bill C-49 is the result of consultations in response to the Emerson panel's review of the Canada Transportation Act, which was expedited by the previous government back in 2014. As was referred to by many of our witnesses, while they appreciate some of the things in Bill C-49, it misses the mark in many ways.
One of the things that I would like to pick up on would be the measures you've just identified that were in the Emerson report but are missing here. I would ask you to comment further on that. Were you consulted during the time when this bill was being contemplated? Were there measures you recommended to Minister Garneau to be included in Bill C-49?