Thank you.
I will be very brief because we already talked about this.
Again this morning, I had the pleasure of being invited to the consultations conducted by the Department of Transport. One of the important questions we discussed concerned the means to take to reduce greenhouse gases and improve our transportation strategies.
In addition, yesterday, my colleague tabled a private member's bill concerning VIA Rail.
It seems really essential that in 2017—it could be 2018, we are easy to get along with—we take the time to do a study on Canada's passenger rail needs. In my opinion, not only is the train the best way of allowing the population to travel in as important a corridor as Quebec-Windsor—and that is not the only one we would discuss—but it is also the best way we have of removing cars from circulation.
These days we talk about electric and hybrid cars, and all sorts of other attempts to reduce greenhouse gases—I am not against any of these measures—and it seems to me that train travel is something we should examine as quickly as possible.
This is all more necessary since VIA Rail has submitted a certain number of projects that just seem to have been on the back burner for several months; we could perhaps agree to hear the various parties and send recommendations to the Minister of Transport that will allow him to accelerate putting in place this 21st century means of locomotion.