Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you very much.
Mr. Larson, can I go back to a comment you made in your opening remarks? You talked about the effects of the government's recent announcement on the capacity of the railcar maintenance sector.
We know that the minister made a fictitious announcement about the replacement of 3,000 DOT-111 cars. We know it because one of the most prominent companies in Canada came to this committee and testified, and here is the testimony from the vice-president of the company involved. I quote:
Right now, all of our manufacturers [of cars] are at the highest capacity ever. This is what it is. If you come to NSC and put in an order for a car, you have to wait until 2015. With other car builders, it's getting to 2016. So we are talking about a big backlog right now.
So the minister—smoke and mirrors—came out and issued this directive, but we all know, based on facts and evidence, that the capacity of the industry to meet those standards is not there, not just in the Canadian context, he testified, but also in a North American context.
I'm going to ask about the effects of this announcement on the important sector you alluded to. Can you help us understand?