I can tell you one thing: at CN we moved the equivalent of 63 million tonnes last year. We can move next year on last year's assets. So we are able to surge, and we surge from year to year because grain moves up and down. It has always been like that. We've never had any crop that shattered all records the way we did this year.
I want to let Keith answer your other question, but I'll just say briefly that I'm not blaming the other sector of grain elevators. I am resisting the advocacy and the fantasies they've been using in setting expectations out there so that the railroads are being piled on. I have that in my throat, big time.
I believe that we should do better every step of the way, and I believe that is happening as we speak. What is not happening is an honest assessment of what can be done. To say they can move 14,000 carloads a week and to write that to Minister Ritz and yell everywhere that the railroads are failing and setting the expectations somewhere between 9,000 and 14,000 tonnes is irresponsible. The minute we started to ramp up—and we are just at 10,000 now—they started to say, “Oh, they're trying to flood us.” Now the speech is different. You have to send it in the right corridor at the right time. Why? Because in reality—and you will find this out, Mr. Goodale, in the next two to three weeks—with the supply chain, the grain elevators, and the railroad together, probably at the moment, with the investments we have, we'd be lucky to do 10,500 cars or thereabouts on a regular basis.
Now, the conversation would be totally different if we had the honest truth on the table. And that's the honest truth. They haven't been able to come up to the table and say so. We will have to prove it over the next couple of months. And you just watch. I gave you the facts in my presentation, and we'll keep tabs on them. That's what this supply chain is able to do, and that's where we have to grow from. We're executing every step of the way, and we're growing that to 11,000 or 11,500, but it's not a railroad problem. It's a supply chain problem.