And the parliamentary secretary, the member for London East. We are doing our level best to produce effective legislation.
Because of my appeal to the stakeholders backed by the consensus of the committee in July, our committee clerk has received over 70 written submissions and close to 100 requests to appear before the Standing Committee on Transport. We have done our homework.
I assure the House and all my colleagues that, as I stated in my letter to the member for Kootenay West-Revelstoke, every stakeholder who has contacted the committee clerk to appear before the Standing Committee on Transport is being provided with the opportunity to do so with or without a written submission.
We look forward to working on Bill C-101 as put forward by the Minister of Transport to create the effective legislation the country needs to go into the next century with a transportation system that will be unmatched by any other country in the world.