At our last meeting, we showed our dismay that Transport Canada was not going to be here, so our clerk has sent another invitation to them asking them to come. She also clarified that she ensured in her e-mail to Transport Canada that Transport Canada understands that, following our conversations, officials were invited to address specific issues of cost of shipping grain by rail.
Chloe got a response. The response from Transport Canada is this: “My apologies for not getting back to you earlier. This morning I got back to the department that said yes.... They confirm that it is understood that we were invited to address the issue of cost of shipping grain by rail and that we would be pleased to appear before the committee later on this topic”. That's a way of saying no, but they would come to our committee later to discuss it. So I don't know that we need to get into a lot of dialogue. I guess the answer from Transport is that they are willing to come later.
Does anybody have any comments?