The petitioners are terribly concerned about the highway 1 expansion project.

Mr. Robert Bouchard (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, BQ): Mr. Speaker, the federal government has made a commitment, with the Government of Quebec, to assume half the costs of widening highway 175.

I would therefore like to congratulate and thank Mr van Miert for his work, because, naturally, the railway, the ports and maritime transport, inland waterways and roads, essentially in the enlargement countries, are quite rightly included, and we are therefore moving in the right direction.

2. Reconfirms the commitment of the Union to continue with the strategy for enlargement according to the roadmap adopted at the Nice European Council; considers therefore that, as a precaution, following the Irish "no" vote on the Treaty of Nice, alternative options must be devised (e.g. in the accession treaties);

When one notices that fares have risen by less the compound rate of inflation, even on those routes without the competition provided by at least three carriers, it can be seen that the growth of competition has even held down fares on those routes where competition does not exist.

7 (a) Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic and of airports [2] with a basic runway length of 2 100 m or more (b) Construction of motorways and express roads [3] (c) Construction of a new road of four or more lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing road of two lanes or less so as to provide four or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned and/or widened section of road would be 10 km or more in a continuous length. 8 (a) Inland waterways and ports for inland-waterway traffic which permit the passage of vessels of over 1 350 tonnes; (b) Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading connected to land a ...[+++]nd outside ports (excluding ferry piers) which can take vessels of over 1 350 tonnes 9.