Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just to follow up on that, I do have the statements here from the Western Grain Elevator Association. They state here, “While volume thresholds can work in addressing capacity issues from a macro perspective, they do not provide clarity in the relationship between an individual shipper and an individual rail carrier.”
They go on to say, “We presume this issue will be addressed by the new regulatory authority charged with establishing more specificity with respect to operational terms in a service-level agreement.”
I think this is what it's all about. It's all about service, service for the farmers, and the only way they're going to be properly served is if everybody within the chain is going to have to adhere to it. When you look at these amendments, they spell out pretty clearly those service-level agreements and what's expected from everybody else in the supply chain besides the farmer.
That's what it's all about, Mr. Chair. It's about service.