I understand that, Mr. Jean. I will tell you as a railroad operator that we operate a network. We have shippers on the one side who would like to have the lowest possible transit time and the best possible service, and we have people who would like us not to operate at night and not to operate on the weekends. The reality is that if you want to bring a movement from Halifax to Chicago in four days, at some point during the journey you're going to have to be operating your railroad at night. That's just the reality.
To your point, from a shunting standpoint our railroad operation is fundamentally different from what it is in Europe. Europe has flat switching, and they have much more of a unit train operation. They do very few hump operations the way we do. The coupling mechanism and the entire fleet of rolling stock in Europe are fundamentally different.
Would it be possible to have roller bearings, or different kinds of bogeys or coupling mechanisms? Absolutely, but we're talking about hundreds of thousands of cars and billions of dollars of investments that cannot be made over time to replicate what some other countries have done for different reasons. I think we have to be pragmatic; I think we have to address those issues, and we have to look at land use as much as we look at noise. Railroads were often there long before residential areas caught up to them. We have to have a forum to address issues with experts who understand rail and noise issues. I think that's what your bill will do.