Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I liked my colleague Mr. Vis's earlier line of questioning, and I hope he and I can work together to ensure that Via Rail has adequate resources to expand public passenger rail throughout the country, including on the routes that it hasn't had the resources to operate over the years. Certainly that would help northwest B.C., where we've seen service reductions over the decades.
My question is about the new Venture fleet. You know, we've had this situation, obviously, involving the new trains. On Sunday, I took the train to Montreal, and we were stuck in the station for an hour while they figured out some kind of mechanical issue. With a new fleet, obviously, there are going to be adjustments, and there's a period of breaking in the new equipment, but I'm wondering, Mr. Péloquin, based on your 40 years of working in the rail sector, if you could characterize how the transition to the new fleet is going. Are the Siemens train sets working out better, worse or as expected?