Thank you very much, and thank you, Mr. Rogers, for being so generous with your time. I really appreciate being able to ask a question.
My question is for Mr. Barrieau, and I'm putting on my hat as PS to the Minister of Tourism and Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Quebec regions. I'm going to share two of my thoughts with you, and I'd be very interested to hear what your thoughts are on my beliefs.
I believe this project would essentially create a more competitive supermetropolis out of four separate metro areas—Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, perhaps Calgary and Edmonton and the smaller cities in between—by making travel for work, education, business, tourism, or visiting family and friends much more efficient than anything we have today.
I also believe that high-frequency rail is aligned with the government's direction to double tourism's contribution to our economy in a decade and that, once HFR is implemented, tourism will be boosted further, as domestic and international visitors will be able to seamlessly travel between those six great Canadian cities, as well as Banff and smaller centres, including Red Deer. You talked about Peterborough and Trois-Rivières.
I'd be interested to hear from you, from a socio-economic perspective, about moving people between those cities. Is this something that you share?