Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my colleague for his question and for his advocacy on Lac-Mégantic.
The new Lac-Mégantic bypass is a priority for our government. It is part of my mandate letter based on the commitment the Prime Minister made. Our government remains solidly committed to it. As my honourable colleague mentioned, undoubtedly now that we are getting to the final phases of the design and to the acquisition of the land and, hopefully, will start construction soon, things can get complicated because as we're negotiating with landowners to purchase their land, some questions and objections are rising because of this new project.
We are dealing with this—