I think we'd prefer a system where the economy dictated the flow of things, and the pull and push of the market forces would dictate how everything would work. Unfortunately, that's not the system we have. The railways really do not have the same competitive forces as other industries. In the U.S., they do have a bid car system. But certainly there's little appetite up here to go to a bid car system, where you bid for the extra cars you need, and then the railways would have a good reason to always be short on cars and always looking for bid cars.
I'm really pleased that no one is talking about doing away with the revenue cap so that market forces can come into play. The feeling is that if the revenue cap were removed, the cost would go up but service may not go up, and many other sectors are also complaining about railway service. That said, there are some perverse incentives within the revenue cap system where the railways, when it's more expensive to move grain, really have no incentive to go out there and put in place the extra rolling stock or the extra locomotives in cold weather.
At Richard Gray's conference, if I could speak for him, he said that we shouldn't necessarily raise the revenue cap overall or the maximum revenue entitlement—which is really what it is because it is a volume-related entitlement. Maybe they're being very well paid when we do our costing review; let's find out about that, but maybe we should provide more of that to them during cold weather, high-cost movement months, and a little less during other parts of the year so that they have the proper incentives to move the grain when it's needed.