Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment was talked about many times. We're talking about corridor capacity. We're talking about supply requirements for short-line rail operators, producer car shippers, and domestic grain farmers.
This amendment makes it pretty clear that they also need to provide some sort of equity in their behaviour. I think we saw all the witnesses who came forward talking about some sort of assurance for the short lines, producer cars. We saw it especially when the case was brought forward from British Columbia where you see the billion-dollar industry in the Fraser Valley that's only got a week or two weeks of grain on hand. I think that's one of the big examples we have out there that when this all comes down and the rail lines are saying, yes, we can move the product that we're told to move, and they're just going to move big volumes.... But is that going to help some of these corridors? Is it going to help some of our domestic users? I think my amendment's pretty self-explanatory. Also, the Federation of Agriculture wanted some more added to that.
That's what it has in there, Mr. Chair. It's pretty self-explanatory. I would hope that the government is going to go with this one, especially because one of their parliamentary secretaries also put it forward. Mr. Anderson, the member from Cypress Hills—Grasslands, wanted this in there. I think he represents a big grain-growing area in southern Saskatchewan. I'm sure he sees lots of short lines and he sees the importance of this.
Mr. Chair, it's very self-explanatory and I think we already have some support from the Conservatives across the way. I think we should go forward with this. I don't think there's much explanation. It was explained very well, especially from the turkey farmer from the Fraser Valley on how we're not moving the grain with short lines and for domestic use. This legislation that's put forward is only dealing with big volumes so the railroads can keep out of trouble. But I think we have to put more into this to make sure the rest are taken care of too.