Mr. Speaker, I think the idea of whether or not we are able to re-route some traffic across our border bears looking into.
I know for a fact that there is currently a proposal from the private sector to buy the currently closed rail bridge that goes across at Niagara Falls. The reason they want to buy that is to change it from rail to a road bridge and use it exclusively for trucks.
The member should believe me when I say that I know what House I am in and of the issues of which I speak.
The province of Ontario has also proposed building a new highway that would be partly alongside the Niagara escarpment and would be used primarily for trucks. I think that makes a tremendous amount of sense.
Those are the kinds of proposals in my view for which the provincial government should be knocking on our door to say that it needs our help to do those things.
We need the federal-provincial agreement to be able to put together some new routes for our commercial goods so that we can then free up the opportunity for other flows of traffic like tourists and residents of both Canada and the United States.
I would be happy to talk to the Minister of Finance. The member should know that we have already have been talking to the Minister of Transport about many of these ideas.