Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll start my first round with Mr. Baudry.
Welcome to the committee. We're very happy to have you here. We're always happy to have people here.
On February 23, the committee had the opportunity to hear from the Minister of Transport, Steven MacKinnon, and I told him about the following situation. Consultations for the Contrecœur expansion project were held in the immediate vicinity of the port, in Verchères and Contrecœur, not in Boucherville or Varennes. Like it or not, containers that go through Contrecœur have to be transported either by road or by rail. If the project is equivalent to 60% of Montreal's current capacity—1.15 million containers—that means a lot of containers being moved, some of them by rail through cities. We therefore expect noticeable impacts on residents of Boucherville and Varennes. When I told the minister about this, he said that my request to hold consultations in Boucherville and Varennes with representatives from Transport Canada, the Montreal Port Authority and CN was entirely reasonable.
Would the Montreal Port Authority be willing to take part in such consultations?