We welcome any academic work. In this case, we wrote to the University of Waterloo student and the sociologist who produced the document to inform them that the document unfortunately contained many factual errors. The depth of the river is not right, the size of the vessels is underestimated by 44% and, above all, the economic context and business need are not taken into account.
The Port of Montreal makes its forecasts based on data from the Bank of Canada and Export Development Canada. You're right, the projections we made in 2017 have not come to fruition. We live in a totally different world. In past years, we have unfortunately had some labour disputes. The good news is that we made good use of that time to advance the project's engineering and get a partner in the project.
Now, as for the future, we are here to meet the needs of Canadian businesses, and the message we have from businesses, but also from governments, is that they want—
