Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before the committee, dealing, of course, with Bill C-52. Five minutes won't be a lot of time to ask questions and obtain answers. I'll try to be brief, and I hope you can be brief in your responses.
Everyone has noted that there's success in service-level agreements since the rail freight service review was initiated. Can you very succinctly characterize what the relationship was like before? Was there any difficulty in negotiating or fulfilling service-level agreements prior to the rail freight service review?
We'll start with you, Mr. Mayer, and then maybe go to Mr. Xotta after that, and we'll kind of work our way through.