I do. And these are good questions. We don't shy away from them.
CN supplies to quite a different network from the one CP supplies to, and CP does a great job. In fact, just this past year we put in place a new co-production agreement with CP into Vancouver. It allows CP to bring railcars, and specifically grain cars—and other products, but mostly grain—that run on the CN lines in Vancouver to get to the Saskatchewan Wheat Pools and the JRIs of the world rather than going through their own yards. It's more efficient for the industry. It's more efficient for CP, it's more efficient for CN, and it's more efficient for the grain companies if we allow that co-production agreement to take place. I got in bed with CP to do that specifically. It's better for the industry, so we have a new co-production agreement into Vancouver as one example.
We also go to Ridley, which CP does not. We also go to Churchill, which CP does not. Any delay in those supply lines to Churchill or to Prince Rupert is going to impact the return of cars to get spotted back into the field.
In the process that we employ today, the plan is put together a week ahead of time. Cars that are coming back to the country could be at Thunder Bay, could be at Churchill, could be at Prince Rupert, or could be in Vancouver. We're anticipating them to flow back into the field to get spotted at elevators. If there's any kind of disruption like the one we had in Churchill at the end of this shipping season, when the weather was bad, they couldn't unload, and the ships couldn't come in, those railcars sit there day after day. I'm planning on those cars to come back into the field to get spotted. If they don't return to me, I can't spot them.
What we do have to do a better job at is communicating. If the cars are not going to come back, we have to tell the grain company, “I'm sorry, we anticipated a hundred cars back from Ridley or a hundred cars back from Churchill. They didn't make it for these reasons, so we're not going to be there on Tuesday; we're going to be there on Thursday.” There's no question that there has to be some communication going on there.
But there are pieces of the puzzle that the railway does not control. Those two pieces themselves, Churchill and Ridley, are two pieces of the puzzle that CP does not have to contend with.