I want to go back to what the minister said at the beginning, to put things in context for the committee. A typical crop over the last five years in the Prairies has been around between 50 and 55 million tonnes in total. Last year's crop was 76 million tonnes. Of the crop typically—it depends on year over year—it's about 30 to 35 million tonnes actually going for exports. Obviously, all the additional crop is not going to get consumed in North America. That's the goal for exports.
It's just the size of the increase of around 20 million tonnes to the size of what's actually getting done typically, which is between 30 and 40 million tonnes; that's a massive increase. But it's very clear that the capacity of the system has to be increased. The rail companies have announced significant investments into new capacities in terms to increase over time, but really the issue we're facing is the speed at which these things can come online versus the simple fact of 20 million more tonnes harvested last year than they are typically. This is definitely a huge challenge.