Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It is a pleasure to hear the witnesses in regard to this issue.
I have some questions for Mr. Bryant and also for Mr. Rennie.
Mr. Rennie, I come from an area of Manitoba that's basically at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg, at The Forks. There hasn't been any navigable freight on the Assiniboine River since the steamships in the early 1900s, but there has been erosion of the riverbanks, and mainly it comes from flooding, from higher and lower levels. There are no real wakes or waves in that regard.
I'm wondering about this. Obviously, the narrowness of a river makes a difference. In the wider area up by Gaspé, and on this sort of thing on the St. Lawrence particularly, it probably isn't as big a problem in regard to the types of erosion we're looking at. Could I just get you to comment on that? You mentioned that you weren't sure, from the studies that have been done, that this was causing the erosion.