Agriculture committee  Yes, for instance, I can only speak for my company in this, but we had signaled our demand for cars for Vancouver, for instance, in June and July, basically based on an average-sized crop. In June, Vancouver was already more or less sold out. That is to say the demand from custom

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll start with the last one and then go back up. From my perspective, but I think the WGEA would agree, we think it's both...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...and crew. It's just not enough to add railcars to a system unless you have...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...cre

Agriculture committee  It would be my view as P&H, but also the view of the WGEA, that it's not just a railcar issue. It's a power issue, it's a crew issue, and it's a railcar issue. It's all combined. You really can't have one without the other. In terms of the 365-day-a-year problem, if you loo

Agriculture committee  I guess the quantification would be 1,000 cars divided by the amount of weeks since we started that count, which I don't have, unfortunately. But I would say that railways have always argued that they don't want to carry excess assets during the slow times in order to service the

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's correct. Actually, I'm...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...in pretty much all the ports in Canada as it relates to grain.

Agriculture committee  I'd also like to point out that the Wheat Board, over the years that it was involved in transportation, also paid a demurrage. I think that if they were sitting around here today they could tell you that they were always been frustrated with rail performance. They always were, an

Agriculture committee  It's John Heimbecker. I would just say that Levi didn't have all the facts. I also represent a western grain terminal and we're running at about 55% of capacity right now. That is to say, 45% is available space and I would suggest to you that probably that's simply a proxy for

Agriculture committee  I'm just wondering if I could add to that, please. I don't think it's necessarily fair to say that we knew in June this was going to be a crop of the magnitude that it was. In fact, I would suggest that in June it was the exact opposite. It was very wet and we were very late in

Agriculture committee  I wonder if I could just add something to that.

Agriculture committee  It's John Heimbecker. I'd just like to add to that, please. Because it was 5% less than last year, we shouldn't assume they did a good job last year.

Agriculture committee  No.