Agriculture committee  I've said this before, but that needs to happen. That's what we need to have. When they're showing their minimums and their maximums, we need it by corridor. That way, it makes for equal shipping. Basically, that's why we wanted to see it, and that's why I mentioned it in my report.

Agriculture committee  Yes. The condition of our grain varied, because we kind of had two harvests. We had our early harvest where the weather was good, the quality was good, and then we had the snow events. Like I said, I was five weeks without turning a wheel, and then, of course, the quality was down.

Agriculture committee  At the present time, most farmers have been increasing storage. I can just use me as an example. We're probably at about 115% or 120% of capacity on my storage because we always have some carry-over. In fact, I'm probably going to have to expand my storage again. Every year, it's just something we do as a business model.

Agriculture committee  The grain terminals are pretty good about that. What happens is that, when we sell our grain, we usually have a time period where we market it. The elevator will call for it. They'll bring it in, if it's an elevator, and then they will load the cars as they're needed, for whatever quantity and quality they need.

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure. Are the ports in on that table?

Agriculture committee  As far as a producer goes, those figures, $75 million, well, that's a breeze. On $85 million, I think we can get there. The potential because of the innovation and technology that we adopt on farm and genetic changes in our crops that we grow is right there. If we get there, we still have to get it to market, whether that be as a raw product or a finished product.

Agriculture committee  It's changing but I would like to see that, because it has to be a group effort. You can't blame one party or put all the emphasis on one party to fix this. It's everybody, from the farmer, the train terminal, the railway, the ports. For that matter, you can go to trade, because we need to have free trade to get that done too.

Agriculture committee  It's too bad the port isn't here to answer some of these questions. Getting to the terminals can be a bit of an issue because they have the passenger train traffic and the bridge to go across. If a pleasure craft goes through, they have to raise it. There are a lot of issues with movement and getting it to the terminal.

Agriculture committee  The issue is capacity. We're getting to where we're at the end of the capacity. There is going to be a time shortly when they physically are not going to be able to move any more product, whether it's grain, lumber, forestry or any commercial product. Let's look at where the shipping is right now.

Agriculture committee  Yes. I'm not talking just about grain but about the economy as a whole. In western Canada especially, we need that transportation system to be in place and reliable. I may have missed it, but I believe Sean did mention the fact that, when his international customers don't get their product when they want it, that doesn't look good for Canada.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'll echo that. We really are encouraged with the communications we've been having with the railways. It's really been delightful and enlightening to do that. By the corridors, that's where we see we don't have enough information. You can ship grain if you take it right off the centre line and get a lot of it shipped in a hurry, but like I was saying, the farther out you're away from the rail line and those terminals, the more you get served last.

Agriculture committee  At the moment, to my knowledge, nobody has applied for interswitching. The railways could answer that better than I could. As long as shipping is good, I don't think you'll see it used. I think if there comes a time when there is a delay for some reason, especially in the southern Prairies, the interswitching will likely be used.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I think this will be the test of the bill, when something does go sideways.

Agriculture committee  I'm encouraged by the wording in the bill and that, but our worry is what will happen when this actually, one day, does happen. Hopefully it never will, but if it does happen, we're wondering how this is going to work through the bill. How does it apply and who does it? There are a lot of questions on my mind as a producer on how Bill C-49 is going to work when something does go sideways.