This never came up in the discussions with shippers because we weren't at the level of the actual language that would be in the bill; it was the concepts of what would be covered. There was a list given of “here's what we want to be covered” and, in the end, the government decided that “we're going to cover this much and we're not going to cover these items here”.
That's what shaped the use of the term “operational”. It was to set that framework to include most things shippers asked for but to deliberately not include other things. The use of the term was very much a technical part of the drafting process, if you will, to capture the policy intent.