It would mean great things.
We're a province that's absolutely reliant on exports. We export more per capita than British Columbia and Alberta.
We have to make our entire modal system, our transportation system, more fluid. We would not eliminate the need to put oil on rail by having the pipelines, but pipelines would reduce the impact dramatically, and I would encourage, as I've indicated, the quick approval of the Energy East project, for example.
The other reality that I think we need to ask this government to look at is the Canada Transportation Act review that is under way, initiated by the previous government. Many of our organizations in Saskatchewan, including our provincial government, have put in submissions. There are some legislative changes that need to be done to enhance that system as well.
I think there also needs to be some consideration given to the port communities and the access to those areas. Living next to a railway line that's increasingly busy is not much fun, I'm sure, and I think that as a federal government, you need to focus on what can be done there, as the provincial government does in British Columbia.
The reality is that in 2013 Saskatchewan had its most successful year. We won a Grey Cup and we had a bumper crop. Subsequent to that, the only thing that people talked about in the winter of 2014 was the Roughriders win.
I don't use that as an excuse to make reference to it again, but I do make the point that we had a crisis in our agricultural sector. Our federal and provincial governments sort of poked the rail lines, but we took a more tangible action and hired the Conference Board of Canada to do a study to analyze what could be done. We have that available to you all, and we encourage you to have a look at it.