Thank you very much, Chair.
And thank you to our witnesses for changing their schedules in order to accommodate these meetings.
I guess I'll echo a comment I made yesterday.
What I'm hearing generally from witnesses is that they support this legislation, Bill C-30, and what it sets out to accomplish. What I'm also hearing is that there is anticipation, hopeful anticipation, for a review of the act itself and of it being accelerated because there are a number of other issues that need to be tackled when that review actually happens.
I believe that's what I'm hearing from most of our witnesses, though I am also hearing about the idea of corridors, which has come up again. I want to echo a point I made last night, and that is that government legislative intervention in a matter like this is done on an urgent basis and we have to find that balance, right? That balance between setting targets that are achievable and that are measurable without getting into the details, because I think what Mr. Phillips said is absolutely right.... The further down you go, the more complicated it gets—it does not get clearer—and the unhappier people are.
I do want to pick up on a comment by Mr. Phillips about teamwork because I think that is the solution in a very great sense. What I'm hearing from witnesses is that they're anticipating that they will get almost no service while another grain commodity will get almost all the service, and then what will they do? But each commodity is saying the same thing, when in fact the reality is somewhere in between. Yes, grain will move. A lot of grain will move at 1 million metric tonnes a week, but we also have to allow the players and the system to work cooperatively to be able to respond to priorities. I did want to pick up on that because I thought that was a really key point, whereby the stakeholders work together to also manage the system because there is a sense of teamwork to it.
So let me just ask that question about corridors. I'm trying to remember exactly who mentioned it.
Were you in dead earnest when you wanted the government to legislate corridors and cars or tonnage per corridor, or were you just worried that your commodity might be underserved by having a global target of 1 million metric tonnes?
Kevin, was that you who brought that up?