This is a dynamic that I'm sure the committee has been witness to across a number of different modes, in that it's endemic to Canada's population structure versus its land mass. With a large land mass and a small population base that's dispersed, the infrastructure needs to be massive and the unit costs over which those costs are recovered are fairly limited. You're never going to get the kind of infrastructure availability and duplication that you'll have in a jurisdiction like the United States, which has so many more rail lines.
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