Thank you, Chair.
When it comes to the Wheat Board, I think it's fair to say that not having a single-desk mandatory wheat board has reinvigorated the wheat sector. Farmers have seeded more than two million new acres of wheat and barley. This is actually a success story. Unfortunately, it's contributed to bottlenecks in the movement of this bumper harvest to port.
I do want to query a few things. When we had our last witnesses here on Monday, I asked a question about the percentage of rail movement of grain, not compared with the harvest this year but compared with last year. The number I got was sort of, well, they're moving actually 5% less, the rail companies are moving 5% less grain than they moved last year.
I heard a couple of numbers from I think Michael Murphy—20% more than the five-year average, and 14% more, or perhaps it was 8% more, grain than last year. I'm wondering if you could just confirm the number for me.
I'm not too sure why there's a disparity there. To me, these are just simple metrics, and the numbers should speak clearly.