Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the three witnesses for being with us today.
I'll start with Mr. Rivest, the president and general manager of Desgagnés Transarctik Inc.
I believe it was last week or the week before, when it became public that the government has decided to subsidize the cost of shipping steel within Canada to help the steel industry cope with U.S. tariffs. This is not necessarily a bad thing because, in many cases, it wasn't financially feasible to ship steel from the east coast to the west coast or vice versa. There's a steel mill in my riding, so of course I care about what happens to our workers.
However, the government chose to subsidize 50% of the cost of rail transportation rather than let folks choose their preferred shipping method. What is Desgagnés's response to the fact that the government has essentially decided to favour rail transportation at the expense of marine transportation?