Agriculture committee  I could say a couple of things. First of all, I'm not sure there are any penalties that would have made a significant difference in terms of what we're facing this winter, and most penalty clauses would have force majeure provisions, which likely would have been invoked. The se

Agriculture committee  There's no question we recognize that we're under the gun, and we're under the gun in a number of other areas. So we certainly recognize that and we're prepared to move on that. In terms of the numbers, it's all on our website. It's all public, so people will know what the backl

Agriculture committee  We will be able to move the kind of volume that we were moving in the fall. We will be able to get the crop moved. It's not going to move immediately. We're going to be going full bore through the summer, which we haven't done in recent years. I certainly can't say there won't be

Agriculture committee  Well, locomotives—

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure there's a magic formula I can give you. The reality is that there's no question that one area where the revenue cap is an issue is in terms of surge capacity. The need in terms of having excess capacity available when there's no chance of being compensated for it und

Agriculture committee  In recent years there has not been much of an eastern rail program. Over the winter this year, it's been delayed because of weather issues, but we are definitely looking at trains to Quebec City.

Agriculture committee  If you're asking can we promise that we're never going to be up against capacity limits in specific times of the year or with specific unusual peaks, I can't say that. You can never size the system to meet every peak demand. As I said, we're investing well over $2 billion a year

Agriculture committee  We've moved cars up from the U.S. We're not moving cars to the U.S. We've moved cars in the other direction to handle the crop. A lot of this is very competitive business. The potash business is an extremely competitive business. The fact that it's backed up is the reality that w

Agriculture committee  As I said, we were moving record volumes in the fall. We felt we had our car fleet sized to what the ports could handle. When we saw in the fall that, in fact, it appeared the ports could handle a bit more than we thought they could, that's why we decided to add the cars. What

Agriculture committee  No, I'm just explaining the statement that was made there. If the ports were congested, adding cars is the worst thing you can do. When we saw that the ports actually could handle a bit more than they had before and that we thought they could, then we made the decision to add car

Agriculture committee  In terms of growing capacity, as I said, we've added locomotives from last year and we just ordered a bunch more locomotives.

Agriculture committee  We absolutely are taking it seriously.

Agriculture committee  No, that was with regard to the Saskatchewan minister, but that was on a different point.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. We've had several meetings with the minister and the deputy minister to—

Agriculture committee  Both ministers.