Sure.
I can mention one now, because it came up earlier, if it's okay with the chair. I did leave the slide, but I thought we could maybe deal with some of these issues in the questions and answers, so I appreciate the question.
Right now we are working with the government on crossings regulations. The regulations were written before input was sought from the rail sector. There are provisions within those regulations that are absolutely unacceptable to the rail industry. I'll give you two examples, and I'd ask the committee to keep in mind that we're working with the government in a collaborative fashion; we're making some headway on these issues. I'm not leading with these kinds of things, and we are working on them, but they're still of concern to us and they are not 100% resolved.
The first issue was snowplowing. In the first draft of the regulations that we saw, which went out for consultation to the broader public, the requirement was for the rail industry to plow the roads on crossings. There are some 30,000 crossings in this country. Many of those are private crossings. Traditionally, the users of those crossings plow them, because they're the ones who use them. Of course, we will plow using the train itself to keep the tracks clear. But in many cases we're not very concerned whether a car can drive over that private crossing in a day. That's one example, and they've since said that was a mistake.
The second example was a rule that required that we not stay in a crossing longer than 10 minutes. As you've heard, we are running longer trains. The reason for running longer trains is that we are moving more goods and it is a more efficient and sustainable way to move cargo. If you pull out of the Vancouver port and you have rules governing the speed that you can come out and you have a long train, if you do the math, length times speed, we're going to be in some crossings longer than 10 minutes. So it's unacceptable to us to have a regulator that will introduce a regulation that we cannot meet. It's not the way to introduce a regulation.
We were quite unhappy with the way those regulations were put forward without our input. We're happy that they are spending some time now getting our input, but we could have resolved a number of those issues before they were written.
I'll leave those.