Certainly the desire of producers is to move the crop at harvest time, September, October, November, December, and January. This is the traditional shipping period for the Canadian crop. All that being said, I think for the grain industry we have to do a better job, and I'm a part of that industry. We have to utilize both the west and the east corridors. We have to market to a year-round program. When we have a variability that's unforeseen because of positive weather, where you can end up with 10 to 15 million tonnes of additional production that no one predicts because of Mother Nature, you cannot move all of the crop in four to five months, even though producers want it to be moved.
To your colleague's comment earlier about Trois-Rivières, the utilization of the lakes and the seaway more effectively with icebreaking capacity to make it more year-round, the utilization of Prince Rupert, the utilization of containers.... One of your previous witnesses said it's not a viable option. We move more containers out of Canada than any other grain shipper. I can tell you that that's part of the major solution, the empty containers going back to Asia, coming into the U.S. via Prince Rupert and Vancouver.
From that perspective, I think we have to utilize all the assets, and farmers have to recognize that we have to market a crop in a whole year.