Minister, the next number I want to put to you is the $5-billion disaster in the Canadian grains industry. I think it's fair to state that your government set this in motion. The elimination of the Wheat Board was supposed to provide more opportunities according to your Prime Minister. He has many quotes on the record about getting the trains moving.
I don't know whether you've been meeting with farmers, Minister, about this crisis, but one of the things and one of the questions put to you in the House of Commons yesterday was that more than a year ago, your government was warned that your new law would not work because there's no clear definition of services, no objective way to measure success or failure, no liquidated damages payable to farmers when the railways screw up as they are doing right now. We have ships sitting empty off the coast of British Columbia. We have billions of dollars of grain sitting stockpiled in Canadian farm settings and we can't connect these dots.
You have all the necessary amendments to fix this mess. They have already been drafted. The question that was put to you yesterday is, are you prepared today or tomorrow before the House rises for two weeks to deal with this crisis, to bring those amendments forward in the House for unanimous consent so we can get this done by tomorrow before the House adjourns?