Thank you. I think that is important. If billions of dollars are being invested in a project, we want there to be benefits here at home, particularly when it comes to job creation. We must not forget that we have expertise right here, so we have to continue to build that expertise rather than exporting it and ultimately losing it, if we allow other countries that have different and very aggressive business practices to undermine our capacity to carry out other projects of this nature in future.
I don't know whether you have heard of the streetcar project in Gatineau. We have met with people, including representatives of the "S'allier pour le tramway" coalition, who advocate having a streetcar that would leave from Gatineau and go to downtown Ottawa. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem relating to the existing federal programs. They say there seems to be a lack of flexibility or of the will to find solutions.
I thought that maybe you had the will to have this project succeed. A structuring project like that, which would connect Quebec to Ottawa, would be beneficial for Parliament and Canada's capital. Public servants would be able to use public transit rather than their cars. Unfortunately, because it is an interprovincial project, there has to be participation on the other side of the bridge, and not just on the Quebec side.
Are there people studying this possibility, or are you going to just say that it's a Quebec project and therefore it is up to Quebec to fund the entire project? Since a portion of the project is not in Quebec, investment that was in proportion to the benefits each side would get from it would be expected.