I don't think the shippers, Minister, have ever said that the legislation or the regulations should prescribe all of the terms of the agreements, but they wanted the assurance that those agreements would at least cover off the areas that were important to a good commercial relationship.
You've mentioned that you have reservations about a dispute resolution mechanism. We can come back to argue that one another time, but what of the other subject areas would you have an objection to? Services and obligations, communications protocols, performance standards, performance metrics, and consequences for non-performance: why wouldn't those areas logically fit within the parameters of a service level agreement? Also, why would a railway object to such logical things being there?