I can't speak to the rate issue, but I know that rates have been fluctuating and are coming down now, from what I'm told by the shippers I speak to.
I think the biggest difference is probably in the level of competition. You have so many more ports with much more capacity in the United States, plus a population that is 10 times greater than that of Canada. As Murad alluded to earlier, in Canada we don't have the same demographic composition as in the United States. Because the majority of the traffic coming into Canada is consumer goods, they are always going to prefer going through the U.S. route if that route is shorter.
Where Canadian ports and Canadian railways have been able to compete is by moving into some of those primary markets faster and more efficiently than their U.S. competitor railways can. That's what has been key to the growth in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, in particular.
I think what we have to do is get back to the basics of competition and get those ports back to being more efficient and more inducive for shipping lines to want to move through those areas.