Mr. Speaker, I did include in my question an inquiry as to whether the Prime Minister had conveyed his concerns to President Bush prior to this morning. Perhaps the Prime Minister would like to respond to that.
Further to other questions that we have raised in the House this week about the inclination of the Liberals toward privatizing things, we notice that the Minister of Transport recently made a speech in which he talked about the commercialization of passenger rail in this country.
I want to ask the Minister of Transport, will he tell the House whether the government has any plans to privatize VIA Rail, or will he do the right thing and get up and say that the government has no intention of privatizing VIA Rail?