Thank you, Chair.
I have mixed feelings about writing a letter to the Senate. I want to see action. I can count, and I realize that we don't have a majority. You have the majority, so whatever happens here will be the Liberal will. As for whether we should write a letter to encourage the Senate to pass a piece of legislation fast, just for one part of the legislation, to deal with a crisis, I'd rather go the other route and split it apart, to do the appropriate study on the entire legislation in the Senate and then do the appropriate study on Bill C-49 on the rail aspect of it. Then you would actually be bringing forward good legislation, not rushed legislation. In the meantime, the minister has the ability to issue an order in council to backstop farmers right now, to have an impact right now, and to see that as Bill C-49 chugs through and perhaps gets amended, it actually comes out as a reasonably good piece of legislation instead of a rupt piece of legislation.
I guess I'm kind of disappointed. If you're going to write a letter, the persons who can have the most impact right now are the ministers and the Prime Minister, not the Senate. The Senate does what the Senate does, in the Senate's time. From talking to the chair of the transportation committee in the Senate, I see that he tried to include more meetings. It was the Liberal independent senators who would not agree to extra meetings. So if you're going to write a letter, I would maybe suggest that you write a letter to the whip of the Liberal senators and ask him why he wouldn't be willing to hold more meetings.