Transport committee  Merci. Bonjour. My name is Marty Cove. I'm the manager of logistics for Canexus Corporation. We're a medium-sized chemical manufacturer headquartered in Calgary, and we have plants in B.C., Manitoba, and Quebec. We produce chlorine, hydrochloric acid, caustic soda, and sodium ch

Transport committee  It's the situation where they have proper traffic control on their lines, as opposed to having dark territory. Those are some small examples. Then there would be other issues that the railway would take into account such as grade, condition of the track, that kind of thing. We a

Transport committee  No, it's done in conjunction with the railroads.

Transport committee  I wouldn't say routinely. From a unilateral perspective, we certainly look at where our traffic moves in every instance, in every single origin-destination pair, and we evaluate whether we think it's the safest possible route.

Transport committee  In the example of Toronto, we don't ship that far, and I don't want to talk about where we do ship. We don't ship much chlorine in Canada, to be honest with you. The vast majority of our chlorine goes to the U.S. By nature of the railway network, there are not many options for us

Transport committee  Sure. In the example I discussed of Burlington Northern railroad, we agreed to ship our chlorine with them over a slightly longer route than the normal shortest route possible. The reason we agreed to do that was that it allowed the railway to avoid high-threat urban areas, which

Transport committee  Exactly right.

Transport committee  Getting it shipped safely is by far our biggest concern.

Transport committee  We don't ship any distillates. Our customers ship those. We're just a transloading operator.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  That's correct. We also ship crude oil outbound to refineries.

Transport committee  I'm not sure we're the experts on rail operations, but with every action, there's usually an equal and opposite reaction. If you slow down traffic in urban areas, there are opposite responses such as, I think one of the railway representatives mentioned the blocking of crossings

Transport committee  No. Our primary concern is more the comfort that we have that the product will arrive within a certain delivery parameter. If it's consistently arriving in that timeframe, faster transit times versus slower transit times aren't really the major issue.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  My organization is responsible for creating the ERAPs for our products.