Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to preface my comments to state that the committee study will in fact contribute to the planning, or some of the information, that Via HFR will utilize within its planning process.
With that said, it is important that the analysts hear the testimony that will achieve that important input that then will be featured in our final report to the minister.
Mr. Chair, through budget 2022, Transport Canada and Infrastructure Canada received $396.8 million in funding over the next two years to advance this project through the procurement phase.
As part of the planning process, I want to ask Mr. Barrieau this.
With your experience as an urban planner in landscape architecture, how important is to work with the local level of government to recognize both municipal official plans and the secondary plans that add infrastructure capacity to those official plans?
How important it is to recognize those two segments of the planning process within a local community to ensure compatible land use planning?