Mr. Chair, through you to the member, thank you.
You certainly have our organization's commitment to look at the study, and we'll send you our feedback directly.
There are just a few things, because you touched on many of them. I think they're all valuable and I think you're spot on. Let me deal with three comments, for the sake of time.
One was your questions around what I would call secondary transport corridors, twinning of our transportation routes. Doing that is critical, but it's a challenge. We're a large country. Twinning all of our transport corridors would probably not be economical. The question then becomes one of strategically looking at where we need to ensure we have secondary corridors and then making the investments in those places.
With respect to ports, one of the challenges we have—I spoke earlier mostly about automation—is that we don't have, beyond our five international gateways, really the ability to quickly put into action other international ports.
Canada Border Services has had an issue with that in the past. I think that's an area this committee might spend some of its time on to understand how we can ensure that we have alternative international gateways, so that when our five are congested, there is an opportunity to use others. There I'm going to pick up on what is certainly your neck of the woods, the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. We have an opportunity with the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes to look at how those can be incorporated into our international gateway system.
Certainly I think all of those types of opportunities to expand our transport corridors would be helpful.
I hope that was an answer, and we'll certainly follow up on the strategy comment.