Francis Drouin at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

Hi.

Thanks to the witnesses for being here.

I'm having a hard time understanding the issue of rain. We haven't been shipping grain for the past year or two. We've been doing this for decades. There hasn't been any innovation to transfer from the cars to the ships in decades...?

I'll ask the question to all of you who are involved in this. Who's responsible for this? I just can't believe, for the life of me, that nobody has come up with a solution that's acceptable to the workers and acceptable, at the end of the day, to the customers—because, at the end of the day, if they don't get their grain on time, then, as Mr. Finn said, Canada looks bad. I'm wondering if they are now working on a solution.

I'll go to you, Ms. Hardy, first.