Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Randy, you should recognize that's the good argument for why you need the Wheat Board--so that you can continue to ship producer cars. Whether the sites have been used or not, it's really an issue of producer rights. How do you balance that against the railways? In this town they have all the power. I said it earlier, in joking to André, but it's true. The Department of Transport might as well be called the department of railways, because all the power is on the side of the railways.
Do you want to talk about lobbying? When we were preparing for this meeting today...CN actually met 33 times with government officials, including the chair of the CTA, since January, and with Minister Baird and Minister Merrifield separately on August 31. So they're doing their work, and I certainly give Merrifield credit for calling them in. But if they decide they're going to close them anyway, is there any authority now on the books through which we can order that those producer car allocations--the sidings, as you said, David--must be maintained? If the government can't do that, then we need changes in legislation so that they can.
Can anybody answer that?