In the case of West Coast Express, the existing contract was released. It went to the British Columbia Supreme Court, and a ruling was made that it was to be released to the public. From a West Coast Express perspective, I think it's an excellent check and balance on me as the CEO, personally, that I'm doing appropriate business deals on behalf of the taxpayer. That includes expansion and such that has to stand up to scrutiny.
Also, under the freedom of information act--each province and federal jurisdiction has slightly different language--you can FOI, if you will, how much a bus costs, how much uniforms and fuel cost. Yet I found it ironic, frankly, that you couldn't find out how much a multi-million dollar rail deal was.
In our case--and I think this actually was debated as part of the Canadian Transportation Act review panel, where CN and CP were present--CN indicated they would have no objection to it going forward.