I repeat that we are not reacting to political pressure. We provided the notice, we spoke to the communities, and after 45 or 60 days, nobody had contacted us to say that there was a problem or to express their dissent.
We could debate whether the notice is an effective tool or not. The people who issued the notice work for me at CN. I was told that they contacted the communities, but perhaps we could have done better. One can always do better, and so I will commit today to ensuring better communication with communities.
That being said, no cars had been loaded at the station for two years. We contacted the mayor to tell him that we wanted to close it, and he asked us what we wanted him to do. We explained that if we found somebody who wanted to load cars, we could keep the station open. But the mayor said that he did not know of anybody and could not help us.
Look, if Mr. Goff is saying that there are people willing to negotiate, I can assure you that I will follow up on this to find out who they are. We will sit down with them. Our business is transporting freight, not closing stations, but we need freight to transport. Without it, we still have to maintain our stations, and, at that point, we run into issues of risk management and rail safety.