Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to take a different direction. A lot of the questions have been somewhat from the political side and have concentrated strictly on the issues we're dealing with when it comes to competitiveness within the industry. I want to concentrate more on the reason we are doing this study, which is ultimately to create more revenue for airlines to offset costs that are being identified, to see what opportunities may present themselves to do just that and, therefore, to pass on a lot of the savings to the customer based on the higher revenue options and opportunities that airlines have.
In Niagara, for example, we have the ports of Niagara trade corridor. That covers parts of southwestern Ontario, including Hamilton and the Niagara area. To go back to Mr. Muys' comments earlier, we work with the Hamilton airport, the two airports in Niagara, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Welland Canal, the short line and mainline railways—CN and CP—and our road networks within the region, especially the suppliers and transport companies that are frequenting our highways.
That said, having seen our supply chains strengthened, especially over the past year, because of the investment opportunities and attractiveness we have in certain areas, especially in the area I represent, do you see opportunities from strengthening multimodal networks, whether through investment in infrastructure, through policy or otherwise, for airlines, in partnership with, for example, rail and others, for revenue generation?
Second to that, there is not only value in the revenue for individual companies, but also value for supply chains with respect to integrating those networks, creating more fluidity and, of course with that, creating more investment opportunities for others to come into these areas to do business, as we are starting to see in southwestern Ontario, specifically in Niagara.