Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my colleague for sharing his time with me.
The nice thing about votes is that when we're waiting to vote we get a chance to speak to some of the witnesses off the record. I want to thank the mayor so much for the conversation.
For the rest of the committee, that conversation had to do with an article...down in Chatham—Kent—Leamington, right next door to my riding. It had to do with ROMA, the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association. I understand there was and still is major concern with regard to the nearly one million acres of drainage between Toronto and Windsor. There's a fight, because the railroads are not paying their fair share, so taxpayers will be on the hook.
I'll switch gears over to the next news article I have, from Tuesday, July 27, 2021, when then-minister Alghabra came to the Windsor area. The headline reads that the federal transportation minister says Windsor to Toronto will be phase two of the high-frequency rail project, which in and of itself is exciting.
Mr. Eaton, I listened to your testimony keenly, and I loved the fact that at the very end you talked about Detroit to Windsor. In your opinion, because this is phase two, today, for Amtrak, Detroit to Windsor—and you spoke about high-frequency rail up to 110 miles an hour, I understand, in the United States—what impact will it have if the Windsor-to-Toronto corridor doesn't get done, for the folks you're looking to move to Windsor? My concern is that once you get to Windsor, you're stagnant.
Do you have any thoughts on that?