I'd like to call our meeting to order.
First of all, thank you very much to our witnesses today for coming on what is I think a fairly urgent subject.
Everybody is quite aware of the intentions that CN has announced to close a number of sidings, and I imagine our witnesses today are aware as well that CN has delayed or postponed that--I don't think the word was “cancel”. We thought we had some time today to at least hear some opinions on it. I'm going to suggest that because of the time of the day, we limit the comments. Maybe you could put them in answers to some of the questions. At the same time, I don't want to totally silence our witnesses; this is an informational thing as well. So if we could keep it fairly relevant, which I'm sure you will, we'll go from there.
I'm not sure who would like to lead off, but somebody can volunteer.
Mr. Phillips, go ahead.