Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague. I appreciated his speech. I know he is a sensitive person. We got to know him when he served as Speaker of the House in the last Parliament.
I would like to come back to one part of his speech. I agree with most of his speech, but not the part when he said that this has been taking too long, that we need to move quickly and that slowing down would be unacceptable. I invite him to come to my riding, Berthier—Maskinongé, to talk to people there about the designated 10-kilometre corridor, and tell them that they might know in nine months whether they are part of the 60-metre corridor, because no one is sure yet sure and consultations are just getting under way. Meanwhile, they can no longer do any work on their land, they can no longer apply for a mortgage, they are completely frozen. I invite him to talk to these folks about the importance of moving faster. Does he not think that the project could have been better planned by now, so as not to terrorize a 10-kilometre wide area in which a 60-metre wide corridor will be built?