Thanks. Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, it's great to see you here. I saw you in Toronto last Friday. You were coming back from an announcement in Winnipeg on Bill C-49 being successfully put through the House, on both sides. It's a terrific piece of legislation that's going to help our farmers. There was great reception in the room. Could you comment on what you saw in terms of the reception in Winnipeg? You could save that one.
In the context of a tour our committee did, where we went across western Canada in the last few weeks, we went to GrainsConnect, in Maymont, and we saw a new superterminal that is processing shipments. The loop system they're using is out of this world. They're filling a hundred cars in one shift. Incredible technology is being used in Saskatchewan.
During our tour of the Vancouver harbour, we looked at the expansion of the G3 Terminal there. We looked at Richardson's completed expansion, and we looked at the Viterra expansion from a few years back. CN is now purchasing 1,000 new hopper cars. They're current to customer demand for the last month or so. We have capacity in the network. We have a transportation bill that's gone through, Bill C-49. What are they thinking in Winnipeg? What's the current climate in the agriculture sector, as you're seeing it, around our transportation and getting grain to market?