Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Again, I appreciate the willingness of our colleagues to make some compromises.
I really don't want to harp on this, and I do appreciate your being flexible, but I think next week is more palatable because of the situation we're facing.
To my colleague Ms. Nassif, I appreciate your defence of CN's letter today, but we've been through this before. In 2013 and 2014, there were all kinds of platitudes from the rail companies. As my colleague Mr. Hoback said, we saw the warning signs in January that we were going to be facing this. We talked about this in October and said that this was certainly an issue. For CN to come forward at the eleventh hour with some steps is great, but it's not like these steps are going to be on the ground tomorrow. These are things that are going to go on over weeks, and I just don't think the impact is going to be there.
Unfortunately, we have to implement some steps, some legislation, and, for lack of a better term, some “punishment” there, such that if they don't get their act together, there are going to be some consequences. They're going to give us all these great platitudes that they're doing everything they can to address the situation, and that's great. I appreciate that—