I understand that. I only want to make sure that one isn't using the numbers to the best advantage to keep them low, and another isn't using them to the best advantage to keep them high, so we face this big discrepancy. I think we need to have everything on the table, as much as we can. So I'd appreciate that.
I want to say to you that I've been very impressed with the amount of work you've done and presented. On other committees, you know, we've never had--not in my experience, which is relatively short compared with some here—the work that you've done, and I think you've said to water down the wine so that you have a consistent message. I want to commend you for that. I think many organizations could learn from that as they come to a federal government, in terms of dealing with bills and their issues around them.
The railways—and it's been talked about before—have absolutely no reserves, no capacity left. Those were the words they used in their comments to us. So there's a concern that the investment needed.... From 1996, there's been $15 billion go into the investment. They're afraid this will cut the investment initiatives by those private investors to make it happen. So there's no capacity left. Therefore, there's a sense that it may curtail investment needed to expand and improve the service.
Can you talk to me, then, about the expansion of the service that has happened under the great times before, and that has benefited you?