Your final question is what the Government of Canada can do to enable advances. We believe that the biggest thing you can do is to institute regulations and allow for what we call temporal separation. Temporal separation was first tried in the United States under what we called the River LINE. I do believe you all have a copy of a document I sent to you earlier entitled “The River LINE”.
The River LINE is a service that was originated in 2004 on the east coast, from Trenton to Camden, New Jersey. They made an agreement with the freight operator to operate the passenger service, the DMUs—not what we would term the Colorado DMU but the European-style DMU—during the day, and then the freight service operates at night. It's quite a transition from what you see elsewhere, where you have the freight and passenger services going hammerhead together and all that.
Their ridership is excellent. They show profitability. They have the same types of DMUs that are used in Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Germany, and Switzerland. The reason for that—and they're building them to do that—is because of the timing. They operate during the day; the freight operates only at night.
One of the things you can see in Canada, which I believe you'll probably see in the future, is what has taken place over the last 15 years in the United States, and that is the short-line operation. In the United States, the major freights, as they've consolidated, have gone to selling off a lot of their territory for freights to use as short lines. One of the things I would suggest is that if Canada moves in the same direction of having a lot of short lines, you allow regulation that when the short line is sold, it is patterned after what we call the River LINE. It will then give you the opportunity to do that.