Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions will be for Melford. I really appreciate your testimony about the importance of port development in Melford, Nova Scotia. You talked about diversifying supply chains, having less reliance on the United States and reducing congestion at existing gateways. I wonder if you can unpack Melford's role in that. How do you see that evolving?
The second piece to it is this. One of our focuses of this study is on large ports and existing infrastructure but also new ports that may focus on assisting larger ports in some way. I'm wondering if you can also unpack Melford as it relates to collaborating with other ports, not as competition but as an immense value-add to Atlantic Canada and all of Canada.