This service is to my humble opinion only a beginning if trucker's lobby doesn't as always convince Transports Canada to strangle the the économics!

All transportation in Canada runs parallel to seaway!

90% + of population lives within 40 km seaway!

Europe has had for decades a very structured aproach to boost internal maritime transport in response to fuel stranghold!

A special EU commission was created -I think 20 years ago -and that with substantial R&D budgets!

I tried to open Quebec Governement eyes ten years ago on that but local trucker's lobby controled the joint sectorial table!

A bunch of incompetent civil servants (almost none with real maritime industry comittments and references at Transport Quebec )
only acquiest to short term political objectives.

USA placed all its priorities to reduce the fuel consumption and weight of road vehicles!

Slow-moe Transport Canada and provinces just went through the copy-cat motions without questionning!