The bill talks about making sure that we have access to all corridors. Access to all corridors has to include the producer car shippers. They're not a corridor; they're not a specific spot. The corridors speak to areas in Saskatchewan. I think we have to work with the legislation to add producer car spots.
The short line I am a member of and on which I ship grain sent me some numbers the other day. They have shipped 531 cars this year, which is good. They are another 500 cars behind, and they have to get to 2,000 cars for the annual year by the end of the year. We're in week 32 of our shipping year; we have 20 weeks left. That's an awful lot of cars. They have to ship another 1,500 cars. That's what they have committed to people such as Garnet.
In the last little while, this is where producers have been going to move their grain, because these are the guys who have said they can move the grain. Their prices have been better, because the basis on the producer cars has not changed nearly as dramatically as that of the elevator system. The producer cars have been returning us better returns for the last three or four months.
I think it's critical, when we talk about the access to corridors, that you have access to shippers within some of those corridors, to make sure the producer cars are there.
We're shipping 50 cars out of our line at a time. The railways aren't really keen to meet that 11,000-car target. It's very difficult for them to pick up these small numbers of cars.