—whatever people might want to reference there.
We heard testimony from Mr. Mongeau from CN, and I'll focus on Mr. Mongeau because it is CN that operates in my riding exclusively. We had almost presumed that a car shortage was something of an anomaly this year only, but I have heard comments about problems since I became a member of Parliament. I heard of previous problems of shortage of railcars. I heard about the shortage of railcars at pulp mills, and I've heard about it in other commodity areas too.
Humphrey and Garnet, please tell me what the situation has been in the last number of years and when the shortages occurred. How has it been going? Has it been getting worse or better? Perhaps you could give us an overview.
Let's start with Humphrey, please.