I don't know the names of each of those producers, but more than half of our members in Quebec have incomes of $100,000 or less per year. Given those circumstances, a bill of $600,000 to $2 million for upgrading a bit of railway track that is not even as wide as the committee room and is used five or ten or 15 times a year is somewhat exorbitant.
That can mean abandoning or completely losing access to the parcel of land on the other side of the track because the producer does not have the resources to pay for the work. They have neither the resources nor the capacity to repay a loan to have that kind of work done. The lots on the other side of the track might be large or might be small.
