Agriculture committee  I want to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear today. To Mr. Bellavance's comments, I think it would be important that you offer to invite Transport Canada here to address some of his questions. I think they're good questions, but currently this is not under our ju

Agriculture committee  When a producer orders a producer car, we allocate that car to the producer. For example, if it's a movement of Canadian Wheat Board grain, he has to either contact us or go through his administrator and they will order the car from the Canadian Grain Commission. We will allocate

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Randy. You're going to see a variance in producer car loadings, and a lot of it has to do with the crop year, the condition of the crop, and what the marketplace is demanding. Right now, a large percentage of the producer cars going to port are carrying Canadian Wheat Bo

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I'll start. Hopefully I've made it fairly clear that the closure of the sites is under the jurisdiction of the Canada Transportation Act and not under the jurisdiction of the Canada Grain Act. So we won't have a position on establishment of certain boundaries; it's not in our a

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank the committee for this opportunity to be heard today. I am very pleased to be here today to speak about producer cars and the role of the Canadian Grain Commission, or CGC, in these cars. My name is Jim Smolik, and I am assist