Sure. I'd be happy to.
Under the current legislation, there is a remedy in legislation that's called “level of service”. Every shipper that ships any products, any commodities, and who feels that the railway has not complied with its level-of-service obligation as stated in the act can complain to the agency. The agency currently has broad powers for the remedy in the act.
The power that it doesn't currently have is to order the railway to pay compensation to the shipper, so that is what this amendment does. It covers not only shippers that are party to an SLA but any shippers that don't have a contract. It uses the existing remedy to resolve level-of-service complaints to allow the agency to order compensation in favour of the shippers.
A question was asked about timelines. The legislation forces the agency to make a ruling within 120 days, and the agency would set out in the order the timelines for the railway to actually pay the shippers.