Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here this morning to share your expertise. I want to address two topics with you in the next six minutes. I will ask the questions, then leave you time to respond.
My first question is two-fold and concerns the interswitching costs. If the real financial interests of shortline rail companies were taken into account when calculating costs, would the measure seem adequate? For example, could an annual update of the interswitching rates be considered to make the measure more acceptable? That's my first question.
My second question concerns the crisis in 2013-2014, when both tremendous production and major climate problems apparently occurred. However, in the following years, we noted a significant decrease in oil transportation, which likely freed a certain number of trains and enabled us to fulfill our mission for grain.
The day we have significant agricultural production, which seems to be more and more the case, and also a steady oil market, will we still have the capacity to transport both?