In terms of the condition of rural roads, roads are a provincial responsibility, but we've always felt that the federal government could do a better job of allocating the diesel fuel tax to highway infrastructure through federal-provincial agreements with the provinces. The current tax is 4ยข per litre. I've got to admit, it's been a while since I've looked at the numbers, but the federal government puts just a small fraction of that back into the road infrastructure. It's been a long-standing position of ours that we'd like to see more of that money go back to the provinces so they can maintain their road infrastructure.
In terms of specific things that we can do, if I understand your question correctly, to make our operations more efficient, I've mentioned some of the things that are coming in terms of border crossings, in terms of electronic manifests, which I think are a good thing. There were some hiccups as we introduced them, at least as the U.S. introduced them, but we'll get over that hurdle, and that will help.
I can give you an example of one efficiency measure that we'd like to see. When trucks idle, to keep the cab warm or cool, it burns a lot of fuel. There are devices out there called auxiliary power units, APUs. At one time, NRCan had a program to help fund these things. Those are the sorts of programs we'd like to see. We'd also like to see the provinces allow some discretion on weights. For example, if an APU weighs 600 pounds or 800 pounds, we'd like to see additional carrying capacity, because that's money out of our pockets.
There are lots of things that could be done.