Thank you, Chair, and, through you, thank you to the member.
I think it's an excellent question. Thank you, Mr. Badawey.
As you know, the SIU has a very large presence in the Niagara region, so we are very interested in expanding the infrastructure investment along the Welland Canal in particular and in what can be done with some of the lands that our government owned in that area. The SIU has been involved in discussions with the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority on developing lands and looking at what can be done from a multimodal standpoint.
When you look at the Niagara region, I think the tie-in with the rail lines and the access to such a large market via the Great Lakes are really important for marine shipping. As for the ways in which we can take advantage of some of those opportunities, I think you could look at some of the vacant land that's along the Seaway as a potential container depot, where you could have some of that short-sea shipping, removing some of the congestion off the highways and the rail lines, as well as moving containers into that region, which can then be trucked or moved via vessel down into some of the larger markets in the U.S.
There's plenty of opportunity there, and we would definitely be in favour of further investment.