Yes, I was pretty good in math in grade 12, and then it went downhill after that.
Look, I know we all take to heart the comments made by MP Lauzon. A lot of what he said was absolutely relevant to the motion. I'd like to take a different twist on it going forward.
When we look at a lot of the major projects that were announced by the Major Projects Office and Prime Minister Carney, we see that a good deal of them are going to require trucks, transportation of a variety of sorts and certainly ports. That's not the focus of this study, but I hope that someday it will be a study we look at. It's one that is near and dear to my heart and I think to the hearts of people across the country and MPs around this table.
However, we're going to be accelerating the major projects in Canada, which requires a lot of transportation. What we heard over numerous sessions here is that there are significant challenges and pitfalls that impact the drivers and the people on the highways. If we don't get together with the provinces on some key items, my concern is that there will be more of them because of the level of traffic that is going to manifest itself from the major projects, whether it's the west coast, the Prairies, the north, Quebec, Ontario or Atlantic Canada.
If we don't get those recommendations to government—which I am sure we will, in due order—then the problem is not going to go away. It will be exacerbated by the volume of major projects that are happening in Canada. That's number one—