Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I think the member opposite is confusing a couple of things here. The amendment, as I understand it, isn't about a retroactive situation. This is about putting in place a regulatory framework or mechanism of compensation, the intention of which is to compel shippers into a service-level agreement, or to strengthen their...because they get, by Bill C-52, the ability to request a service-level agreement. This will provide the additional backstop behind it, or the teeth behind it, that will hopefully get the rail companies to agree on mutual penalties within a service-level agreement. If not, then shippers can go to the Canadian Transportation Agency for that particular remedy.
So this is to enhance the process, I think, that was established in Bill C-52. It's not dealing with whether producers lost anything with respect to the situation at the moment. This is about whether or not service-level agreements going forward have some strength to them, or the means of compelling or persuading the rail companies to sort of see the light with respect to how they structure the service-level agreements. If they don't, then they will compensate.