Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here on a Friday afternoon, or a Friday morning, depending on where you are.
Where do I start? It seems like in my years as a politician here in Ottawa, we've been fighting with railways to get movement of product to market every year or every second year. It seems like they're always front and centre in our targets.
I'll start with this. Because this is a trade committee, are there things we should be doing as a trade committee in our trade negotiations and in our agreements, whether it's at the WTO or, let's say, on the multilateral side, that address the steamship lines, their monopoly and their level of service and that put in some guarantees for shippers?
I think I'll start with you, Murad, and then I'll go to Masoud afterwards.